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Keeping faith with trial volunteers

How best to serve patients' interests in large clinical trials? Martine Piccart, Aron Goldhirsch and their colleagues argue that maintaining academic independence is essential to early breast cancer trials.

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Piccart, M., Goldhirsch, A., Wood, W. et al. Keeping faith with trial volunteers. Nature 446, 137–138 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446137a

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