What is a Clinical Trial?

What is a clinical trial?

Clinical trials are an important care option that you should consider and discuss with your healthcare team when considering treatments for lung cancer. A clinical trial is research that studies better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose and/or treat disease. Clinical trials are research studies that compare the standard of care, which are the most effective known treatment available, with a new approach. Almost every cancer treatment that patients receive today, are as a result of a clinical trial and patients who were willing to help science find new and better ways to treat disease.

Clinical trials are used for all types and stages of lung cancer. These studies may evaluate new drugs, different combinations of existing treatments and new methods of treatment. They may also study new ways to relieve symptoms and side effects during or after treatment.