PHIL 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Letrozole, Breast Cancer
24 Aug 2016
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Why do it: children are susceptible to expectations, more likely to believe it"s working, more likely to try to please doctors. Problems: autonomy issues, children might not understand what the doctor is doing, can"t give informed consent, letting children have asthma attacks because you give them placebo, welfare of child patients. Cornell study ran clinic in haiti that treated aids patients: observed aids/non-aids couples. Provided decent care, but not what was in us. To see if some people are immune and how. Why do it: get good data, data not available other ways. Superior aids treatment not standard in haiti: giving better treatment would be a bribe to be in trial. Testing letrozole 50% less breast cancer recurrence in those receiving treatment (women who had breast cancer, got treatment, then began taking letrozole) Stopped trial half way through (2. 5 years) due to good results: did not test survival, only recurrence.
