Diversity & IncluSion in Research Underpinning Prevention & Therapy Trials

What would a pharmacy look like without clinical trial volunteers? This public service announcement is a collaboration between Sanofi and the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP).

Clinical trials help scientists understand health and disease better. By volunteering for a clinical trial you may be helping your community, our society, and people in general.

What would a pharmacy look like without clinical trial volunteers? This public service announcement is a collaboration between Sanofi and the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP).

What happens once you decided to participate in a clinical trial? You will go through a process called informed consent to learn about the study and what to expect through your trial journey.

Learn how researchers randomly assign clinical trial participants to different treatment groups in order to prevent bias in the results.

In cancer, the Standard of Care is generally determined by the stage of the disease, size of tumor, a person's family history, general health and so on.

There are more than 100 different kinds of cancer.* Each one is treated according to the type of cancer and the stage of the disease. A specific genetic mutation may be associated with cancer and so on.

Immunotherapy can help your own immune system to fight cancer as our bodies are made up of billions of cells. Our immune system protects our cells from attacks from outside viruses and bacteria and internal diseases or damaged cells.

Researchers are working on epigenetic drugs that conflict the on/off switches on our genes to change the instructions that cancer cells are following.

Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. Where surgery and radiation can remove or kill cancer in a specific part of the body, chemotherapy effects the entire body, not just where a cancer started and it can kill cancer cells that may have spread.

Where standard chemotherapy drugs may effect that whole body, newer targeted therapies attack mainly cancer cells and sometimes come with fewer side effects. They do this by targeting specific traits only seen in cancer cells.

Researchers are testing different combinations of drugs, radiation and surgical methods to figure out which combinations work best in which types of cancer.

Laboratory research can help advance our knowledge about cancer, leading to innovative and potentially life-saving treatments.