Clinical trials are studies carried out to help find new ways to prevent, diagnose or treat diseases.Clinical trials with cancer patients try to find out whether new approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment are safe and effective. Clinical trials can study new drugs, different doses of the same drug, surgical techniques, radiotherapy, or how cancer services are delivered.
Clinical trials about ovarian cancer may involve people in Australia and overseas. Major improvements in cancer treatments were first tested in carefully conducted clinical trials.
Every clinical trial must be approved by an ethics committee.
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