Til disputten om tekniske begreper / fagsjargong i Covid-studiene:
Uavhengig av hva man kaller den kliniske studien så vil det nok ha en betydning om man aktivt sier til pasientene i de to gruppene: “Du får ikke aktiv behandling” / “du får aktiv behandling (bemcentinib)”, eller om man sier at “Alle får den beste kjente standardbehandling, og noen får i tillegg bemcentinib, som vi ikke vet om virker, men ønsker å teste om gir en tilleggseffekt, eller om man faktisk får bivirkninger (fulgt av en liste over bivirkninger)”.
Hvis jeg har fått tak i rett skjema, så var dette formulert slik, på Engelsk.
Legg merke til den lange listen over bivirkninger som pasientene er blitt informert om at de kan få av bemcentinib. Man blir advart om at man til og med kanskje kan få kreft. Deltakerene som har fått bemcentinib kan nok heller fort bli vettskremt, og få diare bare av å lese advarslene, heller enn å få en positiv placeboeffekt.
You are being invited to take part in this research study because you have been feeling unwell with symptoms caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2). The disease that the virus causes is called COVID-19.
This research study is being done to test whether medicines which we think may work against SARS-CoV-2 might be able to help people with COVID-19. At the moment, there are very few medicines approved to treat COVID-19 and new ones are required to improve outcomes of COVID 19.
Hospitals, researchers and the UK Government are working together to see if existing treatments for other conditions or diseases or new drugs may be used to treat people with COVID-19. To do this, several treatments will be tested, one at a time, in people with COVID-19. Medications tested in this study are investigational, which means they have not been approved by health authorities, such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for treating COVID-19.
All participants taking part in this study will continue to receive the currently accepted medical standard-of-care for COVID-19.
In this study, bemcentinib will be tested as a potential treatment for COVID-19. Bemcentinib is being developed by BerGenBio ASA. It is taken as a capsule (a type of pill) by mouth.
Although there is no guarantee that you will benefit from taking part in this study, it may be possible that the treatment helps symptoms improve. However, your condition may stay the same or worsen, during your participation in this study. Bemcentinib may also involve risks to your future health that we currently don’t know about.
The following side effects have been reported for bemcentinib:
VERY COMMON (happening in at least 1 of every 5 people)
• Diarrhoea, liquid bowel motions
• Feeling sick, as though about to throw up
• Changes in blood tests which show how well your liver is working
• Small changes in the electrical activity of the heart, without any change to the heart rhythm, but which need to be monitored if they occur.
COMMON (happening to more than 1 in every 20 people):
• Fatigue (feeling tired)
• Vomiting (throwing up)
• Lower numbers of the red cells in your blood (anaemia)
• Poor appetite (not feeling hungry)
• Small changes in blood tests that show how well your kidneys produce urine
• Skin rash (particularly in combination with other drugs)
It is unknown whether bemcentinib causes damage or changes to the genetic information within the body’s cells, which may lead to cancer. However, in animal and clinical studies with bemcentinib that have been completed, there are no signs of any risk of cancer.
We will ask you about any side effects or other health issues occurring during the study and continue to check on these, if they do happen