New Drug Trials

Each year billions of pounds are spent on cancer research by research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and groups of doctors in different countries, all working together. Real progress is constantly being made. Trials of new treatments and drugs take place all over the globe every single day of the year. After a new drug or therapy has been through all the stages of testing it is then licensed for use. Many of us are involved personally in these trials.

Access to New Drugs

Because we are so close to the research process, because we attend and speak at conferences to discuss the results, and because we write papers on new approaches to cancer treatment, we really do know which trials, and which drugs, seem to be the most promising. Wherever possible, and subject to the many regulations which control how soon a drug can be made more widely available, we strive to ensure that those of our patients who might benefit from an advance have access to these new drugs.