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.

 

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

 

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