Why Are Clinical Trials Important?
Clinical trials are a way for trying new treatments and therapies. Dr. Andrea Wolf discusses why.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Clinical trials are important because, again, in this difficult and challenging disease, we want to give patients every opportunity for a long-term survival. Clinical trials are a way of trying new and potentially effective therapies in as safe a way as possible, and in a way where patients do not lose the opportunity to benefit from anything that has been shown helpful. And patients are offered the opportunity to enroll in clinical trials. In fact, we take clinical trials as a very important thing to offer for patients. We have several open, including a prospective clinical trial evaluating the use of a vaccine for mesothelioma patients. We're halfway through accrual and excited about how the data looks so far in how patients are doing on it. [MUSIC PLAYING]