Access to Clinical Trials

You might be wondering what a clinical trial is and could it work for you. Well, we can help you determine if a clinical trial is a good option for your treatment plan and give you access to the clinical trials that could help fight the your type of cancer.

We will answer all of your questions and go over the pro and cons, the possible risks and alternative treatments, so you can make an informed decision whether you want to join a clinical trial or not.

What is a Clinical Trial?

Clinical Trials are the final testing grounds that researchers use to get a drug or procedure approved by the FDA. The first round of tests happens in the lab, then on animals. Then after a long and arduous process when the drug or procedure has been deemed safe enough, the testing phase moves into the clinical trial phase where it’s tested on humans.

Researchers have used clinical trials for years and that is how new cancer treatments have been approved. These types of research has given us more effective way to diagnose and prevent cancer and even found ways to minimize and manage the side-effects from treatments.

Criteria to Join a Clinical Trial

Each trial has a different set of criteria that a patient has to meet to be accepted. This helps to ensure the safety of each patient and that no one is put at risk. By meeting the certain criteria, the group selected is as similar as possible making the medical test results more accurate.

The most common criteria that a patient has to meet are:

• Fall into a certain age group

• Diagnosed with the particular type of cancer the clinical trial is targeting

• Received or not received certain treatments in the past