Research Ethics Committees Identify And Correct Problems In Applications To Do Cancer Trials
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers running cancer trials are often critical of the UK's Research Ethics Committee (REC) process they have to go through to get their trials approved, complaining that it’s too complex, burdensome and sometimes unreasonable. In the UK, only 17% of research study applications are given immediate favourable opinion by RECs.