Many trials try to find better ways to prevent or treat diseases, while others test new ways to detect or diagnose a disease. They have been responsible for virtually all major advances in cancer treatment.
Participants take part in clinical trials for many reasons.
Usually, they hope for a cure and for a way to contribute to a research effort that may help others. Also, participants in a clinical trial are among the first to receive the new treatments before they are widely available. The care they receive is always the best available. There are some potentially revolutionary treatments for ovarian cancer now emerging from clinical trials. Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston conducted a similar experiment, which fused dendritic cells to ovarian cancer cells.