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Participating in Clinical Trials

Risks and Benefits

Here are some possible benefits in joining 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.