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Safety
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Patient was monitoring own blood pressure and sending results back to medical team in between visits
Example quotes include:
“I spent Sunday in bed shaking off a headache and feeling unwell”
“I’m not doing an awful lot because of the fatigue that is really quite, quite overwhelming”
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Convenience
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“The taste of the pills is unpleasant even though they are in the mouth for only a couple of seconds, … If it was possible to mask the taste of the pills that might help”
“A 12 h interval between taking the medicine which requires a 3 h fast, 2 before and 1 after, is inconvenient as say, 0700 h [morning administration] and 1900 h [evening administration] … is not a good time in the evening to fast if you are trying to live a normal life”
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Study design
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“I have been fairly tired as this is second day after chemo and the fairly demanding day of giving blood for the trial”
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