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For cancer patients who have exhausted all available treatment options, Phase I research trials of new oncology drugs may be their only hope. But does that hope come at too high a price?

Too high a price? Re-examining the ethics of Phase I oncology trials

For cancer patients who have exhausted all available treatment options, Phase I research trials of new oncology drugs may be their only hope. But does that hope come at too high a price?