People diagnosed with breast cancer are encouraged to consider joining a clinical trial. Clinical trials offer the chance to try new treatments, risk reduction options or screening tests, and possibly benefit from them.

Breast cancer trials compare the safety and effectiveness of a new treatment versus an established treatment. Breast cancer trials never use a placebo instead of standard treatment and they are not commonly used in other cancer trials. In some trials everyone gets the new treatment. In other trials, you either get the new treatment or you get the standard treatment, just as you would if you weren’t in the trial.

You can learn more about clinical trials in the Clinical Trials page on the Susan G. Komen website at www.komen.org.