Today I attended a workshop on cancer clinical trial research and I would like to share with you the following:
A few things stood out mainly, that a clinical trial may not always benefit the cancer patient involved in a particular trial and that generally, it is requested by persons with stage IV disease.
There is a need to test the drug interventions in humans as in many instances; it works in animal models but not in people.
There are 4 phases in the process for new agents.
Phase O is to see if the drug to be marketed to people who don