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Imagine that you have just been told that your child has cancer. As the news sinks in, you are likely to want to know what the best treatment is and to be assured that your child will get it. You may not want to hear that we don't know what the best treatment is and that the only way to find out for sure is to enter your child into a trial.
If a parent's decision is hard, so too is the job of the trialist. With a child's future in the balance, how comfortable are you that encouraging a parent to enrol is in the best interests of that child? This week's BMJ carries an important paper that may make your job easier. Ambuj Kumar and colleagues (...