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Trials Terminated Early

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.8878

August 05, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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Editorial by JAMA+ Trials Editor in Chief Alison Huang, MD, MAS, and Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD: Early termination in clinical trials is common and not inherently a marker or trial failure.

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Corresponding Author: Alison J. Huang, MD, MAS, University of California, San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94115 (Alison.Huang@ucsf.edu).

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