If You Were Going to Set Up a Clinical Trial

question 136

Multiple Choice

If you were going to set up a clinical trial of a new chemotherapy drug that would be used in addition to traditional treatment for prostate cancer,who would you use as the control group for your experiment?

• A) patients with prostate cancer who received no treatment
• B) patients with prostate cancer who received traditional treatment alone
• C) patients with prostate cancer who were given the trial drug but no traditional treatment
• D) patients with prostate cancer who received traditional treatment plus the trial drug
• E) healthy patients with no prostate cancer

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