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A randomised controlled trial (or RCT) is a very important study design utilised in medical research. It involves recruiting a cohort and randomly assigning the patients in the study to receive one treatment or another. In a double‐blind trial design, the patients and the researchers also don't know which treatment the patient has been assigned. These trials are the best method of determining the optimal treatment strategy for patients in medicine. This method is commonly used in oncology for comparing new cancer treatments to the current gold standard treatment.