Nina Niu Sanford, Assistant Professor and Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology at Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, shared a post on X:
“Sham-controlled RCT on LDRT for Osteoarthritis!
That 42% reported pain improvement in sham arm emphasizes importance of conducting sham-controlled RCTs for interventions with symptom/pain endpoints – an uncontrolled RCT would have dramatically overstated efficacy (70% with 3Gy).”
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