Fact: Costs of a clinical trial are borne by the sponsor,
such as a pharmaceutical manufacturer. (ACRP)
Fact: The care that a participant receives in a clinical trial
is as good as or better than the standard care. (ACRP)
Fact: A placebo is not used in a clinical trial if it might
jeopardize a patient's well being. (ACRP)
Fact: Clinical trials are conducted by the federal government,
pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, device
manufacturers, diagnostic manufacturers, and health care providers.
(ACRP)
Fact: Less than 5 percent of cancer patients participate in
clinical trials. If 10 percent participated, studies could
be completed in one year, instead of the three-five years
that studies currently require. (National Cancer Institute)
Fact: 84 percent of cancer patients are unaware that clinical
trial participation is an option. (Survey of 6,000 cancer
patients, Harris Interactive, Inc.)
Fact: Experts credit research volunteers with helping to develop
treatments that have cut the male death rate from coronary
heart disease by 50 percent (Reader's Digest)
Fact: Clinical trial participants are credited with helping
to develop treatments that now save the lives of 70 to 80
percent of the victims of childhood leukemia. (Reader's
Digest)
Fact: Thanks to ongoing clinical trials, the American Lung
Association anticipates important asthma treatment breakthroughs
in the next five years. (Reader's Digest)
Fact: The number of participants needed for a new drug trial
jumped more than 90 percent from the '80s to the '90s. The
average number of participants was about 2,270 in the '80s,
and 3,700 a decade later. (Food and Drug Administration)
Fact: Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest
and safest way to find treatments that work. (National
Institutes of Health)
Fact: Finding a cure to cancer would be worth about $47 trillion
to the U.S. economy alone. (University of Chicago study)
Fact: In the 1960s it took 8.1 years to develop a new drug-in
the 1990s it took researchers 15.3 years, or nearly double
the time. (ACRP)
Fact: The total research and development cost to develop a
new drug is $500-$600 million. (PhRMA)
Fact: Only three of 10 marketed drugs produce revenues that
match or exceed average research and development costs. (PhRMA)
