WHY ARE CLINICAL TRIALS IMPORTANT?
Clinical trials facilitate finding new treatments
Clinical trials help everyone who has, or may someday have, a particular illness or condition by serving as a testing ground for potentially helpful treatments.Clinical trial patients are instrumental to this research.
If a medication shows promise and is approved by a country's regulatory authorities, then people in the country who are affected by that illness or condition stand to benefit.
Providing access to pre-market treatments
Clinical trials give trial participants an opportunity to receive pre-market treatments that could improve their condition or help restore their health.
There is no guarantee that the treatment being tested will help them - indeed, in blinded studies, there is no guarantee that they will even be receiving the treatment under study - but if a new treatment does prove effective, trial participants will be among the first to benefit.
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