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US cancer trials may go the way of the Oldsmobile

2010; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 16; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/nm0610-632

1546-170X

David M. Dilts,

Ethics in Clinical Research

Cancer clinical trials in the US are at a major crossroads. Current government-sponsored research is some of the best in the world, but the field shares a worrying number of similarities with the American auto industry in its heyday. For clinical research to survive, the field must transform itself now to prevent a similar decline.