In the U.S., one of every three women and one out of every two men are at risk of developing cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. The only way to find a cure is to increase participation in cancer clinical trials. When more people participate in clinical trials, new therapies and new approaches to treatment will be developed more quickly and become available to people with cancer.
Without clinical trials, no new medicines would be available for patients today or patients in the future. Every standard approach to cancer screening and detection and every standard treatment available today has come from clinical trials, which test new drugs or different methods of giving old drugs to help doctors better understand how to use the latest therapies. Yet, of those 1.3 million adults annually who receive a cancer diagnosis, fewer than five percent take part in a clinical trial.
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