Hum. Reprod. Advance Access published online on April 14, 2008
Human Reproduction, doi:10.1093/humrep/den116
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Letter to the Editor |
Ethical recruitment of patients for PGS trial
1 Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Barts and The London NHS Trust, 2nd floor, Kenton and Lucas Block, West Smithfield, London, UK 2 Institute of Health Sciences Education, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, UK 3 Academic Unit for Human Science and Medical Ethics, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
4 Correspondence address. E-mail: ariel.zosmer@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
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Sirs,
Ankum et al. (2008)
, members of a Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (DMC), defended their decision to allow investigators to continue to recruit patients for a study comparing conventional IVF against IVF plus preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) (Mastenbroek et al., 2007
) in the face of masked interim data showing