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Are placebos ever used in breast cancer treatment trials?

April 26, 2017breast cancer placebos treatment trials Used

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Are placebos ever used in breast cancer treatment trials?

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Placebos are never used when a cancer patient would be put at risk by not having effective therapy for their cancer. Patients who join cancer clinical trials that are testing a new cancer treatment are given either the standard of care (the best treatment available for their specific cancer), or receive a new treatment being investigated. Only in the rare instance that there is no treatment proven to be effective against a certain type of cancer would patients be randomized to a placebo.