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Leukemia Treatment Options
Leukemia Clinical Trials
Studies of promising new or experimental cancer treatments
in leukemia patients are known as clinical trials. There are
some risks to participating in clinical trials. No one involved
in the study knows in advance whether the treatment will work
or exactly what side effects will occur. (Keep in mind, though,
that even standard treatments have side effects.) Depending
on various factors, you may decide that a clinical trial will
be beneficial in your case.
To find out more about leukemia clinical trials, ask your
cancer care team. Among the questions you should ask are:
- What is the purpose of the study?
- What kinds of tests and treatments does the study involve?
- What does this leukemia treatment do?
- What is likely to happen in my case with, or without,
this new research treatment?
- What are my other choices and their advantages and disadvantages?
- How could the cancer research study affect my daily life?
- What side effects
can I expect from the study? Can the side effects be controlled?
- Will I have to be hospitalized? If so, how often and for
how long?
- Will the study cost
me anything? Will any of the treatment be free?
- If I am harmed as a result of the research, what treatment
would I be entitled to?
- What type of long-term follow-up care is part of the study?
- Has the treatment been used to treat other types
of cancers?
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