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Environmental_Cake97 t1_ivy72t8 wrote

Reply to comment by CultCrossPollination in Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies by BoundariesAreFun

I wouldn’t want to be in the placebo arm of this one. Dying anyway? Targets the tumor macro environment to make engineered T cells I’m already getting more effective?

The worst it could do, the very worst, is have the opposite effect of that intended. It’s a risk I’d be happy to take.

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CultCrossPollination t1_ivyqawb wrote

In these kind of clinical trials they always use the standard of care medicine as "negative control". placebo is considered unethical. The patients involved are always considered "end of care", so previous treatments have failed to contain an endless growth of the tumors.

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