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Equipoise

What about the principle of equipoise?

Clinical equipoise means that there is genuine uncertainty in the expert

medical community over whether a treatment will be beneficial. This applies

also for off-label treatments performed before or during their required

clinical trials.

van der Voort S, van de Water S, Perkó Z, Heijmen B, Lathouwers D, Hoogeman M.

Robustness Recipes for Minimax Robust Optimization in Intensity Modulated Proton

Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients. IJROBP 2016 May 1;95(1):163-70.

Robustness

recipe vs.

margin recipe