Participating in Clinical Trials

8. What are the potential benefits of taking part in a clinical trial?

Here are ways you may benefit from taking part in a clinical trial.

Your participation may help others get a better treatment for their disease in the future and allow researchers to learn more about how diseases can be prevented, identified, or managed.
Researchers, doctors, and other health care professionals may check your physical condition frequently, giving you regular, careful medical attention, because they need data to make comparisons in a trial.
It may be a way to get an experimental treatment for a life threatening illness before it is approved and widely available.