5. Understand the Importance of Prostate Cancer Trials
The reasons for patients deciding to participate in clinical trials are individual and each person has their own different ones. However, understanding the importance of clinical trials to advance fields like prostate cancer may help patients decide. Prostate cancer clinical trials are determinant for the development of new medical treatments, but they’re also contributing to improving prostate cancer survival rates, continuing the evolution of fighting the disease, and for assuring efficacy and safety as well as for the approval of these therapies.
Read more about why clinical trials are necessary, what they are exactly, and how men with prostate cancer might benefit from clinical trials working to advance new therapies here.
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I am currently receiving treatment for early metastatic prostate cancer. The treatment resulting from two recent trials, one in the USA Chaarted and one in the U.K. Stampede, using both Docetaxel and Goselerin . I am now halfway through the Chemotherapy 6 doses every three weeks and the first injection of Goselerin 4 weeks ago. I had a PSA test yesterday hopefully results are good