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Crowdfunding to pay to be a research subject in a clinical trial: The case of Lily Wythe [UPDATED 1/23/2020—see addendum]

Post author By Orac
Post date January 22, 2020
40 Comments on Crowdfunding to pay to be a research subject in a clinical trial: The case of Lily Wythe [UPDATED 1/23/2020—see addendum]

Lily Wythe and pay-to-play clinical trials

Lily Wythe is a teenaged girl with a deadly brainstem cancer whose case has made international news because of her family’s crowdfunding to get her into a clinical trial. Should investigators be allowed to fund trials this way?

Tags BrainChild, CAR-T cells, clinical trials, crowdfunding, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, DIPG, GoFundMe, Lily Wythe, Nicholas Vitanza

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