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Ethical Concerns of Clinical Trials

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Based on the description of voluntaries, do you feel that most patients or participants are coerced into joining the clinical trials that they participate in?

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The ethical concerns of clinical trials are determined.

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I do not feel that most patients or participants are coerced into joining the clinical trials they participate in. I feel that the following excerpts from the article linked below will be helpful when putting together your answer.

"The attitudes of 1066 patients with cancer towards participation in randomised clinical trials" from the British Journal of Cancer.

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v103/n12/full/6606004a.html

"Although we should ...

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