What are the benefits of participating in a clinical trial?

 

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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, including family, friends, and future patients, by advancing cancer research
• 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