Dr. Geoffrey Johnson
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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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When Jay Elsten's neuroendocrine tumors no longer were responding to traditional treatment, Mayo Clinic offered him a recently approved nuclear medicine therapy. Within a week, Jay's symptoms were gone.