Can clinicians do research using tissue from their own patients?
Yes. They are particularly well-placed to ask for their patients’ consent. If they wish to do research without asking their patients’ consent the research project will need to be ethically approved and they must arrange the research so that they do not have access to information identifying the person from whom the tissue came. This does not mean that the records and tissue must be permanently unlinked.
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