10 Things to Know about Clinical Trials 10 Things to Know about Clinical Trials 1.
Clinical trials are research studies that involve people.
Each study tries to answer scientific questions and to find better ways to prevent, diagnose or treat cancer. See Introduction to Clinical Trials 2. A clinical trial is one of the stages of a long and careful cancer research process . Getting promising results from testing a new drug on mice, for example, is a preliminary step to human research studies. Treatments that work well in mice do not always work well in people.