Understanding Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are the key to the future of cancer treatment. Carefully controlled clinical trials allow doctors and medical researchers to investigate new drugs in an effort to prevent cancer, reduce the side-effects of current treatments and to improve the quality of life of patient affected by cancer.
Under most circumstances, a clinical trial involves a comparison of a new drug or treatment against the current or standard therapy. The two (or more) regimens under investigation are monitored for both efficacy and safety.
Whist there are certain risks involved in researching novel treatments, clinical trials represent the only true means of accurately measuring the benefits of new therapies. Patients that become involved in clinical trials make an important contribution to medical science and to the broader community.
This section contains a number of commonly asked questions about clinical trials. To obtain further information, please consult your doctor.
