Clinical Trial Volunteer Information: Why Participate in a Clinical Study?

There are many individual and personal reasons for becoming a clinical trial volunteer. These include:

• appreciation for the benefits such involvement could have for future generations;
• assisting in the process that uncovers more successful medicines, which at times benefit serious or life-threatening conditions;
• drugs on trial today could go on to become the licensed drugs of tomorrow and benefit you or family members;
• some study patients enjoy the social interaction or reward that comes from participating.

Become a clinical trial volunteer to help find new treatments

Clinical studies help everyone who has, or may someday have, a particular illness or condition by serving as a testing ground for potentially helpful treatments.

If a medication shows promise and is approved by a country's regulatory authorities, then people in the country who are affected by that illness or condition stand to benefit.

Providing access to pre-market treatments

Clinical research gives the clinical trial volunteer an opportunity to receive pre-market treatments that could improve their condition or help restore their health.

There is no guarantee that the treatment being tested will help them - indeed, in blind studies, there is no guarantee that they will even be receiving the treatment under study - but if a new treatment does prove effective, trial participants will be among the first to benefit.