Natasha Mitchell

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means you don't know whether you'll get the trial drug or not.

So you are playing a game of luck just when your luck is running out.

And if you do happen to get the drug, its side effects might be worse than the cancer itself.

But you'll put up with a lot when you feel like your options are limited.

Professor Ian Olver from the University of South Australia has a really interesting combination career going on.

A long-time medical oncologist, he's also a renowned cancer researcher and a bioethicist concerned about the ethics of treatment.

Even so, you can't help but hope that a trial might beat your cancer.

And that's the message from Big Pharma too.

In the quest to find the next breakthrough cancer drug, the pharmaceutical industry stands to make big bucks if a trial is successful.

And of course, millions of us might benefit.

But when it comes to recruiting trial subjects, if you have terminal cancer, you're possibly the most willing and also the most vulnerable.

So who's got your back?

And are you at risk of being given false hope in the interests of progressing science?

Here's Rod, Karen and Chris's stories.

Chris was diagnosed with cancer of the peritoneum, which lines your abdomen.

Essentially it holds your organs in place.

it.

Chemotherapy and very invasive surgery was next for Chris.

It was heavy going.

For Rod, a scan revealed all.

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