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Clinical Trials
What are clinical trials?
A clinical trial is one of the final stages of a long and careful cancer research process. Studies are done with cancer patients to find out whether promising approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are safe and effective.
Courtesy of the National Cancer Institute
How to talk to your doctor about clinical trials?
Anyone considering a clinical trial should feel free to ask any questions or bring up any issues concerning the trial at any time. Below are tips for asking your doctor about clinical trials.
When you talk with your doctor or members of the research team:
- Consider taking a family member or friend along, for support and for help in asking questions or recording answers.
- Plan ahead what to ask--but don't hesitate to ask any new questions you think of while you're there.
- Write down your questions in advance, to make sure you remember to ask them all.
- Write down the answers, so that you can review them whenever you want.
- Consider bringing a tape recorder to make a taped record of what's said (even if you write down answers).
Courtesy of the National Cancer Institute
For more information on clinical trials go to:
http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning
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