A new study was conducted in how to tell cancer patients who take part in clinical trials, the results of the study. Taxotere as Adjuvant ChemoTherapy, TACT, researchers asked 1,400 UK patients involved in clinical trials if they wanted to know the results, and how they would like to be told about the results. It is not surprising to me that 98 percent of the participants said they wanted to know how the clinical trial they took part in turned out.

Stella Kyriakides, Co-Chair of EBCC-5 and past president of Europa Donna comments, "Some breast cancer patients take part in a clinical trial and are never told the results. It is important that patients are not forgotten after they have participated in a study that ultimately improves cancer treatment for all patients."

After a cancer patient agrees to help with a clinical trial, letting them know the results seems the fair thing to do. In the study, patients preferred to be told directly. Researchers felt that patients should be notified by the patient's hospital.