Clinical Trial Options
When you join a clinical trial, you have the chance to receive a new and promising treatment. This can bring hope if other treatment options do not work or are not available. Clinical trials are something you volunteer to do, not something you have to do.
Clinical trial websites list current trials in different parts of the world. The websites are often developed for researchers and medical language is hard to understand.
Navigating clinical trial options is challenging some are funded privately or by drug companies, these trials may not be listed on these websites.
Finding institutions, hospitals or clinics that offer a trial which may be available if time consuming and upfront work must be done to confirm eligibility for specific trials.
Oncologist usually do not have time or resources to identify clinical trials available outside their own institution and therefore patients are left without support and desperate for help.