Abstract
In Brazil, the dissemination of information regarding the promise of a cancer cure using phosphoethanolamine, observed in some in experimental model studies, has contributed to ill individuals seeking treatment with this drug, even without human clinical trials. This work aims to analyze the use of phosphoethanolamine as a therapeutic approach for the treatment of cancer in the Brazilian population, based on a systematic review of the literature and according to the parameters of the principlist theory and the concept of social vulnerability.
Principle-based ethics; Social vulnerability; Neoplasms; Phosphoethanolamine; Bioethics