'You might find out there's something that will keep you going,'
But among the many sufferers with terminal cancer, 782 men and women have that most precious commodity - hope. Conventional NHS cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy have failed them. They have nothing left to try. So they have volunteered to take part in clinical trials of unlicensed, experimental cancer drugs. With luck, these novel treatments may extend their lives. They will certainly help ensure that future generations of cancer patients can have better treatments that should prolong theirs.
At worst, though, these potential life-savers could also kill them earlier than their cancer would, because of their toxicity.
Case studies: the new cancer drug trialguardian.co.uk - UKAlmost 800 terminally ill cancer patients already participate in clinical trials being run by the 19 experimental cancer medicine centres. ...See all stories on this topic
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