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Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has called this a “remarkable moment” in cancer research. Scientists are more knowledgeable than ever about how cancer starts, how it spreads and how to combat it.

The first North American patient to be treated with Radium 223 (Xofigo®) or placebo for a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, has started treatment at Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa, as part of an innovative clinical research study.

Cancer treatments studied today could become the standard of care tomorrow. That’s just one reason why patients consider participating in a clinical trial, says Kimberly Ivester, director at the Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center.