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Faith and prayer helped with the cascade of decisions: trach, bronchoscopy, open heart surgery?

All of my decisions are about getting him to the clinical trial.

Clinical Trials: Whatever decision you make, it is going to be right for you.

Clinical Trials: Weighing the Risks and Benefits

Clinical Trials: As she aged my expectations about what treatment would mean adjusted.

Clinical Trials: Which child? The decision was made for me.

Clinical Trials: Is this really the right thing for my child?

Clinical Trials: What diseases can actually say there is a cure?

Clinical Trials: A mom on assessing risk when her child has a treatable disease

Clinical Trials: Deciding if this is the right trial – Are you looking for curative or something that mitigates? What if there is a placebo?

Clinical Trials: A mom on weighing risk, understanding endpoints and managing expectations

Trial Participation, balancing risk and reward, hope and expectation, commitment and community

The Personal aspects of a clinical trial, including relocation and the impact on other children

Should I participate in a clinical trial?

Clinical Trials: Timing is everything. Participate early or wait for Phase 3?

Clinical trials: Weighing the risks; A Leap of Faith (CLN2 / Batten)

Clinical Trials: You adjust your life and just do it. (CLN2 / Batten)

Clinical Trials: Relocation and impact on the sibling (Batten/CLN2)
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