cancer clinical trials

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Clinical trials: A significant part of cancer care

Mayo Clinic doctors discuss the role clinical trials — research studies that test new treatments and other interventions — play in cancer care.

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Why is cancer so hard to cure?

Mark McNiven, Ph.D., and Tanios Bekaii-Saab, M.D., Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, explain what cancer is, how it develops and why it's challenging to treat.

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Faye Belvin: Living a healthy life, thanks to a phase I clinical trial

Faye Belvin discusses her experience participating in an ovarian cancer clinical trial at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida.

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Addressing equity in clinical trials

In this Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast video, Dr. Gerardo Colon-Otero and clinical trial participant Sonya Goins discuss equity in research and clinical trials.