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How Research and Discovery Can Help YouLehigh Valley Hospital’s Cancer Center is active in research and offers access to clinical trials that are not available at other centers in the region.Cancer care has made great strides in recent years. For the first time, cancer deaths are actually falling in the United States, even though our population is growing and getting older. You have more reason to hope than ever before.Patients at Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Cancer Centers benefit from the most up-to-date knowledge available. We stay on the leading edge of cancer care through national organizations such as:
Clinical trials are ongoing research studies of new approaches to prevention and treatment -- often new drugs or new ways to use existing drugs. The new approaches have been thoroughly tested in the laboratory. The last step toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration is to try them with people. Depending on your specific cancer, you may be eligible to participate in a trial. If you are, your doctor will tell you about it. For example, two of our patients participated in a recent ovarian cancer study. It found that delivering chemotherapy directly to a patient's abdomen increased life expectancy, on average, by 16 months. We can also help you get information about trials at other cancer centers nationwide. Of course, whether you participate in a trial is always completely up to you. There's never any pressure. This page last updated 2/12/08 04:08 PM
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