Participating in Clinical Trials

Frequently Asked Questions

30. Why would a clinical trial be stopped early?

Clinical trials can be stopped any time in any phase of testing for several reasons.

• Early results may show that the experimental treatment works much better than the others. In these cases, researchers would offer the experimental treatment to the control group.
• The study may find no difference between the control group and treatment group, so further testing is useless.

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