The Best Treatment is Prevention

At TCHOP, we conduct hundreds of cancer trials every year. While many of these involve current cancer patients, testing for more effective treatments for their particular type of cancer, we also test new approaches, looking for the best way to prevent the disease in people who have never had cancer. These trials – called prevention trials – may also test methods of preventing cancer from coming back to those who have already had cancer. Like clinical trials, prevention trials are categorized into Phase one, two or three, and can focus on subject reactions to medicines, vitamins, minerals, food supplements, or a combination of these.