What are the benefits of participating in a clinical trial?

 

“Click on this video to hear a real story about why someone decided to take part in a clinical trial” or

“Click on this video to hear about why clinical research is important?”

Option 1; Option II; Option III below

 

Patient  benefits include:

• Access to new treatments

• More treatment options

• Becoming more informed about the treatment itself and feeling more in control by taking an active role in your health care

• More time with your cancer team and opportunity for inclusive individualized, patient-centered treatment
• Prevention and early cancer detection
• Some study sponsors may pay for part or all your medical care and other expenses during the trial. (This isn’t true for all clinical trials.)

 

Provider benefits include: 

• Opportunity to learn about new drugs and identify new treatments

• Improves familiarly with potential FDA approved treatment options
• Allows providers to determine whether new treatments are safe and effective
• Listen to what the providers have to say about clinical trials

 

Institutional benefits include: 

• Provides opportunity to offer the “top line” cancer care

• Fulfills NCI mandate to offer participation to all patients

 

Societal benefits include: 

• Helping others by helping to advance cancer research and find a cure

• Clinical trials produce treatments of the future and help identify which patients a treatment might work for
• Current treatments are a result of past clinical trials