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- Title
Single patient care and non-validated treatment (The so-called 'compassionate use').
- Authors
Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica
- Abstract
The article discusses the analysis by the Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Cancer Research on the issue involving the non-validated therapeutic treatment for compassionate use in tumours. Topics discussed include the definition of the combination therapy as recourse to impromptu prescription, the bioethical relevance of the administration of non-validated treatments, and the identification of the bioethics agenda.
- Subjects
TUMOR treatment; DRUG prescribing; BIOETHICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMBINATION drug therapy
- Publication
Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 1, p385
- ISSN
1430-9017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jwiet-2016-0125