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by chipaca 2107 days ago
In mice.
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Have you clicked on the link? It's a result from an RCT in women with locally advanced breast cancer.
In his defence the abstract starts by talking about mice, which is a bit confusing. Sure they talk about patients as well but it's not immediately clear that mice can't be considered patients. If you read on it becomes clear though!
The title saying it's a multi-centre phase 2 trial makes it extremely clear. You don't do those in animals.
On the contrary. It worked in mice, so they tried it on humans; turns out it works in humans too.
The first sentence was misleading to me as well (it does refer to mice, but only as a "was also effective on mice" sense), but the study was done on humans.