Megan
Megan, Executive Director Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation. Mother to Isla (10) and Jude (8), Sanfilippo Syndrome

Clinical Trials: Whatever decision you make, it is going to be right for you.
In this video, a mom talks about how advancements in science have made it so that some families will be faced with choosing which trial to participate in. She discusses pursuing all the available options but emphasizes feeling confident that when the time comes to choose, you will make the decision that is right for you.
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Clinical Trials: Whatever decision you make, it is going to be right for you.

Clinical Trials: Once treated the road ahead is unknown.

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

Clinical Trials: Two children screened, one qualifies – antibodies exclude the other.

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

Clinical Trials: The pioneers and those who come after.

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

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

Clinical Trials: Waiting for an emerging therapy

Clinical Trials: Prioritizing therapies to meet the eligibility criteria

Clinical Trials: You give up some control when your child is a data point.

Clinical Trials: Restrictions in the Informed Consent and participation can be isolating

Clinical Trials: The logistics and limitations of gene therapy

Clinical Trials: Survivor’s guilt and my place in the community.
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