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
- 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