Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments & How They Can Help You

by Linda Lamb and Robert Finn

For a very few cancers, treatment options are minimally invasive, resoundingly curative, and have very few side effects. However, most cancer patients face treatment options that are less than ideal. The odds they have been given for a chance of recurrence might be frightening. Or, the "cure rate" of treatment might be good, but the side effects (short- or long-term) might be daunting.However, there's great hope on the horizon. Basic research on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565925661
• ISBN13: 9781565925663
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Patient Center Guides
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A must-have for anyone diagnosed with cancer!

Unless you have one of the rare cancers that has a greater than 98% 5-year survival rate, you need to seriously consider being part of a clinical trial.This book tells what clinical trials are, details the differences between Phase I, II, and III clinical trials, and tells how to find trials that may be of interest to you. The most important part of the book details how to educate yourself to read the informed consent document and the experimental protocol, and how to choose a trial. It details the good and bad experiences that patients have had with doctors and with clinical trials.Whenever a new treatment is hailed for cancer, it came through clinical trials. If you want the best possible treatment for you or a loved one, you need to read this excellent book, and then make an informed decision.