Welcome to Clinical Trials Month!
If you’re taking medication or being treated for an illness, you can thank a clinical trial—and the brave patients who took a chance on research.
Why are clinical trials important?
Clinical trials are essential for discovering new treatments, improving existing ones, and ensuring that medicines and therapies are safe and effective. Without them, modern medicine wouldn’t exist. Every vaccine, cancer treatment, and chronic illness management strategy has been made possible because people volunteered to participate in clinical research.
Fun facts about clinical trials:
• The first controlled clinical trial was in 1747 to study scurvy in sailors.
• Every year, over 400,000 clinical trials are registered worldwide.
• You don’t have to be sick to participate—many trials need healthy volunteers too.
• Children and teens also participate in trials to help develop age-appropriate treatments.
• Diversity in clinical trials is critical to ensure treatments work for everyone.
This month, we celebrate the scientists, doctors, and especially the participants who make medical breakthroughs possible.
If you’re a cancer patient, oncologist, or caregiver searching for treatment options, 1104Health.com is here to help you navigate what’s available and find the right path forward.
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