Myeloma Center

Research into new ways of treating myeloma is going on all the time. As no current cancer treatment results in the cure of all the patients treated, cancer doctors are continually looking for new ways to treat the disease and they do this by using clinical trials. You may be asked to take part in a trial.

Trials compare new treatments with the best available standard ones. This is called a controlled clinical trial and is the only reliable way of testing a new treatment.

The reason why your doctor would like you to take part in a trial (or study as they are sometimes called) is because until the new treatment has been tested scientifically in this way it is impossible for doctors to know which is the best one to choose for their patients.

To take part in a trial, you must give your `informed consent’. Informed consent means that you know what the trial is about, you understand why it is being conducted and why you have been invited to take part, and you appreciate exactly how you will be involved.

Please click on the link here Multiple Myeloma Clinical Research Trials in Cornell
to learn more about clinical research trials in myeloma

Even after agreeing to take part in a trial,
you can still withdraw at any stage if you change your mind