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Ethical Issues Concerning Human Research Subjects in Phase I Cancer related Clinical trials Personal HistoryWhat are clinical trials and how are they brought about?Personal History On Mothers Day, May 9, 1999, my mother, Deborah Ann anteroom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I spent the majority of my day in a church, hoping and praying for some new and improved drug to come about for my mother. I thought, anything is possible, anything could happen and that she could survive. New drugs and treatments are developed all the time. There is sure as shooting something for her. My father and I began our research on-line that night and all my forecast began to fade. There was minuscule known about pancreatic cancer at the time. Researchers and oncologists could not put their fingers on any successful treatment for this guinea pig of cancer. My mother was given a yr to live. After a fit months of the regular, commonly used dosage treatments for pancreatic cancer, ther e were no results indicating her tumors were wither or even that they had stopped growing. They still grew, but basically at a slower rate. It was at this point that my mothers relate suggested applying for a clinical trial. The clinical trial family meeting was at my dinner party table at my family home in Simi Valley, California. We sat my withered, lifeless, 44 year old mother down. My older brother sat at wiz end, my father at the other, I, across from her. We asked her and explained to her all of the possibilities involved with clinical trials. She was of lean already aware of the many symptoms involved with chemotherapy, however we had to make it nett to her that there was a high possibility she would receive treatments that provide little or no treatment. Additionally she might receive treatments that her body cannot allot and there may be side effects previously unknown. It was at this point my mind cleared. I looked up at my mother, a charwoman who knew her time on earth was coming to an end and thought, Who really holds the closing making here? Would she choose to receive this treatment if we were not here, plead her to stay alive? Is it worth the pain and torture?