What is a clinical trial? Why should people diagnosed with cancer consider a clinical trial? Are clinical trials safe? In this follow up episode, we answer those and all your burning questions about this topic with our first repeat guest on the podcast, Dr. Tara Lin, Medical Director of the KU Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office.

Links from this episode:

• Listen to the first part of our conversation with Dr. Lin on Episode 3 of the Bench to Bedside podcast - Cancer Clinical Trials: Why Diversity Matters: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancer-clinical-trials-why-diversity-matters/id1583289928?i=1000605372184
•  Learn more about clinical trials at KU Cancer Center: https://www.kucancercenter.org/cancer-clinical-trials
• Dr. Tara Lin shares the five things you may not know about clinical trials on the KU Cancer Center blog: https://www.kucancercenter.org/news-room/blog/2021/09/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-clinical-trials  
• Learn more about the KU Cancer Center clinical trials finder app, available for download on Apple and Android: https://www.kucancercenter.org/news-room/news/2023/02/clinical-trial-finder-application-adds-patient-friendly-feature
• Dr. Roy Jensen on the importance of clinical trials for cancer (video): https://youtu.be/6QSIYBUPEtU

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