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Reasons for participating

There are many reasons for participating in a clinical trial. You, as a patient, can be sure that your therapy complies with the current medical standard and that it will be documented and monitored very thoroughly and at close intervals. If you participate in a trial, this subjects the physician who is treating you to an external quality control. As a consequence, Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated within a clinical trial have a better disease-free survival than comparable patients treated outside a trial.

Apart from that, your trial participation helps further improving therapy for future patients.

*Corinne Brillant, Claudia Terschueren, Sylke Gierer, Jeremy Franklin, Stephanie Heidelbach, Ursula Paulus, Volker Diehl, and Wolfgang Hoffmann: Differences in Survival Rates for Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma, Who Were Treated Inside vs. Outside Therapy Optimisation Protocols in Germany. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 2321.