Jayne - Interview 03  

Jayne - Interview 03

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Background: Jayne is a Consultant orthodontist, married to a GP, with 2 children, aged 8 and 5. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Jayne had breast cancer aged 33. She wanted to join a clinical trial but her consultant was not interested, so she transferred to another hospital and took part in a trial comparing tamoxifen with tamoxifen plus goserelin (Zoladex).

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Unless you have strong feelings about which trial group you would want to be in, Jayne advises people to take part. She is confident in the system of ethical approval and regulation of trials.

 



I’d say that unless you’ve got any strong feelings about a treatment you want or don’t want, I’d participate. …But there are, I think there are always occasions when the treatments are so dramatically different that some people will have an in-built priority. But I think the, the amount of work that goes into setting up a trial, unless, unless there is no clear evidence that one treatment is any better than any other, the trial won’t get ethical approval. And the conditions around registering a trial, getting ethical approval and funding and everything have so, improved so much over the last ten years, I wouldn’t have any qualms that what a clinician was doing was unethical, because I know the rigours that they have to go through to get approval and you can’t do a trial without approval, and all the protection that’s in, in-built in the systems now, when you’re running a clinical trial, that you have to give reports and, you know, show how people are doing. 
 

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