When you participate in clinical research, you’re helping scientists find new ways to treat your disease. Clinical trials work best when people of different ages, races, ethnicities and sexes are in them. Diversity in clinical trials is essential because people with different characteristics may experience the disease differently and react to treatments and procedures differently. Scientists can find the best ways to treat your disease in all types of people when they have all types of people in their studies. Participating in clinical trials helps other people, but it can also help you directly. There may be no approved treatment available for you or you may have tried all of the available treatments. Clinical trials may offer hope and can give you a chance to get a treatment that could work. You also might get a new treatment before it’s available to everyone else and access to healthcare providers (HCPs) and other resources you didn’t have before signing up for the clinical trial.