What is clinical cancer research?
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What is clinical cancer research?
Clinical Cancer Research publishes articles that focus on innovative clinical and translational research bridging the laboratory and the clinic.
What are clinical trials for cancer patients?
What Are Clinical Trials? Clinical trials for cancer are research studies that compare the most effective known treatment for a specific type or stage of cancer with a new approach. This can be a new drug, or combination of drugs or a different way of using established therapies.
Are clinical trials for cancer good?
Through clinical trials, doctors determine whether new treatments are safe and effective and work better than current treatments. Clinical trials also help us find new ways to prevent and detect cancer. And they help us improve the quality of life for people during and after treatment.
What is the success rate of cancer clinical trials?
Right now, more children join clinical trials than adults. More than 60% of children with cancer join a clinical trial. Of these, 75% live a long time after cancer. Fewer than 5% of adults join a cancer clinical trial.
Who pays for a clinical trial?
Every trial is different, but the clinical trial’s sponsor usually pays for all research-related costs and any special testing. Typically, the patient or his or her insurance company is asked to pay for any routine tests, treatments, or procedures that would be required as part of standard cancer treatment.
How do you qualify for cancer clinical trials?
Common eligibility criteria include:
- Having a certain type or stage of cancer.
- Having received (or not having received) a certain kind of therapy in the past.
- Having specific genetic changes in your tumor.
- Being in a certain age group.
- Medical history.
- Current health status.
Are clinical trials worth it?
What are the Benefits of a Clinical Trial? You may get a new treatment for a disease before it is available to everyone. You play a more active role in your own health care. Researchers may provide you with medical care and more frequent health check-ups as part of your treatment.
Who Cannot participate in clinical trials?
Some trials only include people in a certain age group, or of one sex, or at a particular stage of their illness. The exclusion criteria state who cannot take part in the trial. For example, people who are already taking particular medicines may be excluded as these may affect the trial treatment.
Can you leave a clinical trial?
Yes. You can leave a clinical trial at any time and for any reason.
Is it good to participate in clinical trials?
Participation is critical in helping prevent, diagnose, and cure diseases and illnesses. When you participate in a clinical trial, you are contributing to research that could bring new treatments one step closer to reaching patients across the nation.
Do clinical trials really pay?
Overall, the median clinical trial compensation was US$3070 (range = US$150-US$13,000). Participants seeking new healthy volunteer trials tended to screen for three studies per year, participate in one or two studies, and earn roughly US$4000 annually.
