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From good to great: what patients can do for your medical research

Nature Medicine volume 26, page 1508 (2020)Cite this article

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Melanoma Patient Network Europe has a lot of experience in connecting researchers with patients, including organizing patient-led conferences. The group’s founder explains how productive interaction can be transformative to research.

The question became extremely personal when my husband’s melanoma no longer responded to the experimental treatment he was receiving in a clinical trial and there was nowhere but research to turn to. It has remained so ever since, and Melanoma Patient Network Europe, the network for patients with melanoma that I founded after his death, is a constant reminder that greatness in medical research is measured in lives well lived, not in articles published or honors received.

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Ryll, B. From good to great: what patients can do for your medical research. Nat Med 26, 1508 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1097-8

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