5. Understand the Importance of Prostate Cancer Trials
The reasons patients’ participate in clinical trials can be very different. However, understanding the importance of clinical trials to advance treatments for diseases like prostate cancer may help patients decide. Prostate cancer clinical trials are instrumental in developing new medical treatments, but they also contribute to improving prostate cancer survival rates, continuing the evolution of fighting the disease, and for assuring efficacy and safety of these therapies.
Find out more about the importance of clinical trials.
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I’ve participated in one 2 year Prostate clinical trial which ended a year ago. Hoping to sign on for more!
I am in a clincal trial now for an added procedure as part of HDR brachytherapy. I like the idea of trying something new that will benefit others down the road.
That is great to hear Dan! Clinical trials are so very important in this fight against prostate cancer… and any other disease really.