Ethical and regulatory challenges in a randomized control trial of adjuvant treatment for breast cancer in Vietnam

Journal of Investigative Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 423-431

  Love, Richard R ^a   Fost, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PATERNALISM; PEER REVIEW; PREMENOPAUSE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; VIET NAM;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DISCLOSURE; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICAL REVIEW; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PATERNALISM; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PREMENOPAUSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TAMOXIFEN; VIETNAM;

EID: 0031254311     PISSN: 17088267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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