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Clinical trials: Neither last chance saloon nor guinea pig experiments
Clinical trials are a viable treatment option that gives patients access to cutting-edge therapies.
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There is a rich pipeline of new treatments for previously untreatable conditions and improved therapies for a whole slew of chronic and life-limiting illnesses, says the writer.
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Danny Soon
For patients with serious illnesses and their loved ones, it can be desperately unsettling to be told that their treatment options have come to an end.
It is often at this point, when conventional methods of treatment have been exhausted, that the choice of participating in a clinical trial enters the conversation, a chance to beat the disease.
