Cancer trials are carried out to try to find new and better treatments for cancer. Trials that are carried out on patients are known as clinical trials
Many drugs and treatments that have been tested in clinical trials are now in common use and without ongoing clinical trials it would not be possible to add to the current knowledge about effective treatments
Clinical trials of new treatments rarely stop when specialists agree that it works. There may be better ways of using it, such as giving it in different doses or combining it with other treatments.
Clinical trials are divided into different stages called phases. The earliest phase trials look at whether a drug is safe or the side effects it causes. Later phase trials will aim to test whether a new treatment is better than existing treatments
There are 3 main phases of trials: Phases 1 to 3. Some trials will have an earlier stage 0 and there are some phase 4 trials undertaken after a drug has been licensed.
Please click here for latest trial information.