Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2019
Modernising clinical trials for patients with cancer
23 January 2019 - Clinical trials involve evaluating and validating new therapies in humans and represent the fundamental means of making progress in cancer care.
The oncology community has made significant improvements in treating most cancers and, in some cases, has developed cures, such as for testicular cancer, Hodgkin disease, and acute lymphocytic lymphoma. In an even larger number of cancers, researchers and clinicians have succeeded in making cancer a chronic disease that people die with rather than of.
Each of these therapeutic discoveries represents the results of clinical trials.
