We want you… to participate in a clinical trial.
- Only 5% of people with cancer choose to participate in research.
We’re not perfect with chemotherapy yet, so a chance to get
standard versus what we believe to be superior treatment
should be a simple decision. Ask your oncologist about trials
that may be available for your form of cancer.
- Women are not men with breasts. Because so many studies have
been done solely on men, we don’t really know how to best
treat women. Join studies that investigate women's health.
- All races need to enroll to enhance their own health. For example,
African Americans, justifiably leery due to the Tuskegee
Syphilis Study (in which poor black males early last century
were followed for their syphilis for decades without
treatment, despite penicillin acceptance as standard of care
mid study), have not participated fully in research. Effective
treatments differ between races, as attested by the FDA’s
approval last year of the first race-specific heart failure drug
-- highly effective in African Americans and much less
effective in Caucasians. This doesn’t happen without
participation.
We want you… to participate in a clinical trial. Only 5% of people
with cancer choose to participate in research.
We’re not perfect with
chemotherapy yet, so a chance to get...
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Dr. Patricia Raymond answered:We want you… to participate in a clinical trial.
Dr. Ajay Sahajpal of Aurora Health Care answered:In the ongoing fight against cancer, the new therapies and alternatives that have developed over time have come from clinical trials. They are necessary for the advancement of therapies.In the ongoing fight against cancer, the new therapies and alternatives that have developed over time have come from clinical trials. They are necessary for the advancement of therapies. More
