Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on April 14, 2008
Human Reproduction 2008 23(6):1472-1473; doi:10.1093/humrep/den117
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Reply: Ethical recruitment of patients for PGS trial
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Paediatric Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4 Correspondence address. E-mail: w.m.ankum@amc.uva.nl
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Sir,
In their response to our paper, Zosmer, Epstein and Al-Shawaf have expressed ethical reservations regarding both our decision to set symmetrical criteria for early termination of the preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) trial, as well as the appropriateness of our justification for doing so (Mastenbroek et al., 2007
; Ankum et al., 2008
).
Whenever promising new treatments have already