Accessing Personalized Medicine

Clinical trials often utilize personalized medicine, which looks at a patient’s specific genetic mutations, markers, or DNA sequencing to inform a treatment approach. Participating in a clinical trial may be the only way for you to get access to personalized medicine therapies.

Helping Advance Science

Clinical trials are essential for making progress toward cures for cancer. Your participation can lead to the FDA approval of new and improved treatments that can help people with cancer in the future.

Careful Monitoring

Requirements for clinical trials are strictly managed by the FDA. Before an investigational treatment is approved for testing, the FDA ensures it has gone through strict testing protocols in preclinical studies. Because the investigational treatment is being carefully studied, patients are carefully monitored by healthcare professionals to see how they are doing and to watch for side effects. You will be carefully monitored throughout the trial. You also will likely talk more often with your care team than patients with cancer not enrolled in a clinical trial.