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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2005 Dec 15;104(12 Suppl):2999–3005. doi: 10.1002/cncr.21524

TABLE 2.

Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Clinical Trials

Variable No. of responses (%)
Knowledge of the term “clinical trials” (n = 33 respondents)
 Never heard of clinical trials 7 (21)
 Heard of clinical trials 26 (79)
  But lacked any knowledge 16 (62)
  And had some knowledge 5 (19)
  And had lots of knowledge 4 (15)
  But no data regarding the scope of understanding 1 (4)
Attitudes toward clinical trials (n = 17 respondents)
 Used as a human guinea pig 12 (71)
 The last resort 11 (65)
 More suffering 6 (35)
 Prefer safer treatments 2 (12)
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