Ethical challenges in conducting clinical research in lung cancer

The aim of this article is to examine the types of ethical issue that arise with clinical research in lung cancer and to suggest possible resolutions. Lung cancer research does not raise any unique challenges. Those discussed here have arisen in other types of research. However, as the brief history below shows, ethical problems have hindered research in this area because it has features, such as high mortality, that raises such challenges particularly sharply, for example, randomisation and equipoise remain problematic. It is on these acute ethical issues that this article will primarily focus