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Nature Medicine 13, 110 (2007)
Published online: 31 January 2007 | doi:10.1038/nm0207-110a

Tied up in red tape, European trials shut down

Brandon Keim1

  1. New York


Uneven rules across Europe have created a bureaucratic nightmare.


The chemotherapy drug doxorubicin has been used to treat soft-tissue cancers in children for more than 20 years, but doctors don't know the most effective dose, nor how it interacts with other drugs.In 2005, European researchers set out to find these answers in a large, multi-center trial.