A Colorfull outlook ahead....
The Observer,
Sunday August 10 2008
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Almost 800 terminally ill cancer patients already participate in clinical trials being run by the 19 experimental cancer medicine centres.
They are people whose NHS treatment has either not worked or stopped working. Each trial involves patients taking either an experimental drug, or an existing treatment usually used in other cancers, or a standard chemotherapy drug taken with either an unlicensed or established drug.Unlike some other clinical trials, these patients are not paid. They take part to give themselves a chance of extra life, to help future generations of cancer sufferers and also to involve them in something positive at an otherwise depressing time.
Case study 1
'If there's a bit of hope, there's life'
Ruth Potts counsels cancer patients and their families at Belfast City Hospital. The 56-year-old was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in April 2007
When my doctors recently offered me the chance to join an experimental cancer trial, I asked: "Will this extend my life?" They said: "It might." So I agreed. I was keen to try anything that might help me because my ovarian cancer had returned after I'd been in remission for nine months, which was devastating. Continue in The Guardian...
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