When looking at the benefits of clinical studies, it is hard not to look at the potential risks of such studies. In clinical trials where the patient’s life is at risk there are always measures taken to warn the patient and provide him/her with ample information. Also most patients that participate in such trials are facing some form of imminent death and they are looking to these medical trials as a last resort. It is important to understand and realize that there have been times where patients’ lives have been saved because of medical trials.