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Hope,
I think clinical trials get a bad rep from the media. They will pick out the one in a million side effects and play them up. I'm a nurse, so i know this happens. I was in 2 clinical trials. First being the Herceptin adjuvant trial for a year, and look, now it is front line. the second being the Her2 vaccine trial. I think clinical trials give us great hope and a chance to get treatments NOW that won't be out for a while. this gives us the best chance of surviving this. Younger people do go for clinical trials, i think because we have more aggressive cancers, and there isn't a given treatment now that can cure us. Don't be afraid of them. If it will cure only one in 1,000 patients say, who knows that you aren't that one?
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