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by Turing_Machine 1052 days ago
> A Phase 1 trial is used to determine if a treatment is safe and to determine the maximum dosing.

There are also nuances here. A drug that's effective against some type of cancer can be deemed safe (or at least safe enough) even if it has truly horrific and/or dangerous side effects, because it's cancer, while a drug with the same safety profile would never be approved for, say, athlete's foot.

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Everything in medicine is about weighing comparative risks - nothing is completely safe if you look at it hard enough. Well raised point, thanks.