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Clinical Trials: they are not designed only to be a “last resort”
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Sep 13 7:47am | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
"What results in a trial being terminated is failure to accrue the pre-determined number of participants necessary to obtain enough statistical data to make valid conclusions." That's actually what I suspected when I asked Dr. Alewine the question about the trial being canceled. If that's so, I'm hoping there are enough folks reading this forum to where a few are afflicted with this rare cancer and will apply. Thanks for the input, sir.
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I wonder to what extent prospective, possible qualifying participants are being identified and invited to apply to participate in trials. With almost everyone's health information being stored in electronic medical records as well as insurance companies having diagnostic codes used for billing, it seems that the tending physicians could be sent information about trials without identifying the patient (for privacy reasons) but just to inform the physician. Marketeers who buy personal data from data brokers never seem to have difficulties identifying and targeting prospects with advertisements!