ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. This information should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.

Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups - Trial Check

TrialCheck®, winner of 2008 Consumer Health World Award “Best in Show,” is the country’s most up-to-date source of cancer clinical trial information. The Coalition’s copyrighted cancer clinical trials screening questionnaire will identify trials appropriate for you, your loved ones or your patients. TrialCheck® contains more than 4,000 cancer clinical trials from Cooperative Groups, National Cancer Institute (NCI), academic centers, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies. TrialCheck is updated on a daily basis with new information.

SARC's Clinical Trials

SARC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and support of clinical trial research for the prevention, treatment and cure of sarcomas - a cancer of the bone and connective tissue of the body.

Southwest Oncology Group

Southwest Oncology Group is one of the largest cancer clinical trials cooperative groups in the United States. Funded largely by research grants from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the Group conducts clinical trials to prevent and treat cancer in adults, and to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors.

Sarcoma Trials Listed at Center Watch

Founded in 1994, CenterWatch is a trusted source and global destination for clinical trials information for both professionals and patients. CenterWatch, a Boston-based publishing and information services company focusing on the clinical research industry, is a business of Jobson Medical Information, LLC. We provide proprietary data and information analysis on clinical trials through a variety of newsletters, books, databases, and information services used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, CROs, SMOs, and investigative sites involved in the management and conduct of clinical trials. As a pioneer in publishing clinical trials information, CenterWatch was the first Internet site to publish detailed information about active clinical trials that could be accessed by patients and their advocates. Today, we have one of the largest databases of clinical trials actively seeking patients on the Internet.

Clinical Trials Information from the National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute maintains a list of clinical trials and clinical trials results, as well as educational materials about clinical trials.

Acurian

Acurian maintains a set of proprietary databases of patients and clinical trial investigators. The patients are profiled by geography and condition while the investigators are profiled by experience and specialty. Geared somewhat towards the investigators and the sponsors of clinical trials, patients and caregivers can nevertheless join the Acurian community to explore clinical trial enrollment opportunities and discover new treatment options. Information that a person provides to become a member is kept private and secure. Customized e-mails provide weekly updates about new clinical trials and developing medical news.

American Cancer Society Clinical Trials Matching Service

The American Cancer Society Clinical Trials Matching Service is a free, confidential program that helps patients, their families, and health care workers find cancer clinical trials most appropriate to a patient's medical and personal situation. Through a partnership with the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups, we can help you find research studies that are testing new drugs or methods to prevent, detect or treat cancer.

EORTC European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer

EORTC mission is to "conduct, develop, coordinate, and stimulate laboratory and clinical research in Europe to improve the management of cancer and related problems by increasing survival but also patients' quality of life." The ultimate goal of EORTC is to "improve the standard of cancer treatment in Europe, through the development of new drugs and other innovative approaches, and to test more effective therapeutic strategies, using drugs which are already commercially available, or surgery and radiotherapy." There is a history of nearly three decades of coordinated cancer treatment research between the EORTC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is the leading agency for cancer research and treatment in the United States and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Medical Research Council UK

MRC’s Cancer Division Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is the largest cancer trials office in the United Kingdom (UK), and is active in all aspects of clinical trials. It’s objectives are to, "Initiate, design, conduct, analyse and publish clinical trials of national and international importance; Develop all aspects of clinical trial and meta-analysis methodology; Advance the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of clinical trials research; and Investigate cancer treatments of unproven effectiveness through the conduct of individual patient data meta-analyse." In particular CTU’s website states, "The CTU conducts several trials jointly, or in parallel, with other large trial organisations both within and outside the UK. In addition, many CTU trials are open to participation from individual clinicians world-wide."

Musella Foundation

The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research Information provides this site on clinical trials and noteworthy treatments for brain treatments. You can browse for treatments by tumor type, treatment type, geographic area, or you can search by keyword or use the advanced search to narrow down the treatments, or search by doctor or hospital. The site also contains a brain tumor guide, and you can subscribe to the Foundation’s newsletter. All brain tumor patients are also welcomed to participate in the site’s "Brain Tumor Virtual Trial," a new concept in collecting and analyzing outcomes data for brain tumor patients. This program collects information from brain tumor patients, over the internet, and the Foundation records and analyzes the outcomes of the treatments with the idea to enable the Foundation to identify which treatments or combinations of treatments look the most promising.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

You can find descriptions of some of the newest clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at this website. Clinical trials can be found by searching all trials or pediatric trials by disease category. Search results provide the full name of the trial, the trial’s purpose, eligibility, and the contact investigator.

National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is one of the centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NCCAM is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals. On the NCCAM Health Information subweb, you can find general information about understanding complementary and alternative treatments, more specific information about the various complementary and alternative treatments available, as well as alerts and advisories, and information about dietary supplements. One can also search for complementary and alternative medicine clinical trials by treatment or therapy or by disease or condition.

CureSearch
City of Hope: Clinical Trials On-Line
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Johns Hopkins (Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Ohio State (Arthur James Cancer Hospital)
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Children's Hospital
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center

Abigail Alliance

The Abigail Alliance is dedicated to helping create wider access to developmental cancer drugs and other drugs for life threatening illnesses. The Alliance is promoting creative ways of increasing expanded access and compassionate use programs, and promoting creative ideas to get promising new drugs to the market sooner. The Abigail Alliance is also dedicated to help inform cancer patients and their doctors about the www.clinicaltrials.gov and www.cancer.gov clinical trial websites and to make sure all trials are listed and kept up to date.

CureSearch Clinical Trials Information
SFA's Clinical Trial Resource Center

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