Clinical trials in cancer: the role of surrogate patients in defining what constitutes an ethically acceptable clinical experiment.

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Published in Br J Cancer on March 01, 1989

Authors

W J Mackillop1, M J Palmer, B O'Sullivan, G K Ward, R Steele, G Dotsikas

Author Affiliations

1: Ontario Cancer Foundation, Kingston Regional Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology, Toronto, Canada.

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