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Facts and Figures

Clinical Trials play a critical role in the development of new medicines and therapies. Below are different facts and figures which support this claim.

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

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.
US National Cancer Institute

In the last year 1206 trials were initiated in the United Kingdom.
MHRA Annual Report, 2006/2007

At least 80 percent of people who have participated in a clinical trial would do so again.
Harris Interactive, 2005

Very few patients are even aware that they are eligible to participate. And surprisingly, only 30% of participants report that they first learned about a clinical trial from their primary/specialty health care provider.
US Institute of Medicine

The first properly conducted controlled clinical trial was performed as early as 1898, where the efficacy of serum treatment on diphtheria was shown.
BMJ, October 1998