What are Clinical Trials?

Improving the Quality of Care for Patients

Clinical trials are carefully designed research studies that help doctors find better ways to prevent, diagnose, or treat diseases such as cancer.

They allow researchers to test new treatments, technologies, or approaches to care to see if they are safe and effective.

Support from a Dedicated Clinical Trials Unit Team

Every clinical trial follows strict rules to protect the safety and rights of the people who choose to take part.

Patients who join a trial may gain access to promising new treatments that are not yet widely available.

Patients on clinical trials are supported by a dedicated clinical trials unit team who carefully oversee their care every step of the way.

 

Participation is Always Voluntary

Taking part is always voluntary, and patients can leave a trial at any time without affecting their regular care.

Before joining, patients receive detailed information about what the trial involves so they can make an informed decision.

Extra Quality Assurance, The Highest Standard of Treatment

Clinical trials also help doctors learn which treatments work best and for whom, improving care for future patients.

By participating, patients play an important role in advancing medical knowledge and shaping the future of cancer treatment.

Extra layers of quality assurance and guidance from international specialists help ensure that patients on clinical trials receive the highest standards of treatment.

“It’s absolutely brilliant, because when you’re told that we’re going to monitor you for five years and you come in every 6 months and your bloods are taken and everything is checked. It’s a great feeling because it means you’re not on your own…it’s a great sense of security and you’re not worried about anything.”

Tom Cosgrove on what it's like to participate on a clinical trial.