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Clinical Trials / Drug Trials

Creator: Vanessa Jones
Keywords: Clinical Trial, clinical research trial, cancer clinical trial, clinical drug trial, Clinical Trial Protocol, Experimental Drugs, New Treatment, Drug, Clinical Research, Drug development, Drug approval, research, drug, purpose of clinical trial.

Written by - Vanessa Jones, B.A

Medically Reviewed by - Dr. Sunil Shroff, MBBS, MS, FRCS (UK), D. Urol (Lond)

Last Updated on Jun 22, 2020

Clinical Trial and its Purpose

Clinical trials / research studies gives a clinician many answers to questions from the point of prevention, detection, diagnosis, control and treatment of illness or a condition such as cancer. It is used not only in relation to a new drug but also to study equipments, devices, treatments, interventions etc.

Clinical trials or research is done when there is some reason to believe that the treatment being studied may be valuable to the patient. Some of the questions answered by doing a clinical trial are:

How helpful the treatment is?
How does the experimental drug or new type of treatment work?
If it works better than already existing treatment options?
What are the side effects that occur as a result of the new treatment/ drug?
How serious the side effects are when compared to standard treatment options?
Do the benefits outweigh the side effects?
Which groups of people are most likely to benefit from the new drug / treatment?

Published on Apr 22, 2016
Last Updated on Jun 22, 2020

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appu10

good guidance in simple language!!!!!!!

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delmon54

I want to start a cancer support group here at a village near Madurai, to conduct free medical check-ups, guide cancer patients like where they to go for treatment, whom to contact, how to go there, where they can get free treatment or where assistance could be got etc. Those who are already doing this kind of help to cancer patients can please guide me how to run a similar cancer support group in this village near Madurai. Please contact Gurumoorthi, thanks.

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guest

We are a group of anti- cancer healers and counsellors , our mission being , allow the fullest co-operation of the patient with the Specialists/Physicians for reducing the side-effects, reduce pains , ease digestion etc. All that we need is a photogragh of the patient and theh details of treatments and updations to our mail i d. Don belive us until you see the effects of our hard work . 'Service to patients with big C is service to God ' our motto .

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guest

my dad has been diagonised with stage 3 lung cancer he is undergoing radiation n chemo he is 63 years,please give me some tips about what has to be done treatment was started on 2nd august 2010.

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guest

What are the side effects that occur as a result of the new treatment/ drug

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