Clinical trials can be integral to some patients’ treatment but they also serve a larger purpose. “We need everyone to be partners with us if we're ever going to truly cure cancer or prevent people from having to die from cancer,” says Dr. Beth Karlan, director of the Women’s Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Karlan says the goal with clinical trials is to advance cancer research to a point where the disease becomes akin to diabetes where it becomes a manageable condition. “I think we need to have that ongoing partnership with patients,” she says, “so we can better understand how to help the greatest number of patients with cancer.”
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