Talking with your doctor is usually the best way to find a clinical trial. Because new clinical trials are continually enrolling participants, many people also look in other places to find clinical trials. The organizations below list cancer clinical trials. Please note that if you select one of these websites, you will leave Cancer.Net.

TrialCheck: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is collaborating with the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups, a network of cancer clinical trials specialists, to offer TrialCheck through Cancer.Net. TrialCheck is a search tool developed by the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups to assist you in locating cancer clinical trials.

CenterWatch: A publishing and information services company that offers a list of institutional review board (IRB)-approved clinical trials.

EmergingMed Navigator: EmergingMed offers a phone and Internet-based service that identifies clinical trial options which match a patient’s specific diagnosis, stage and treatment history. Clinical trial specialists provide telephone support upon request to help connect eligible patients with institutional review board (IRB)-approved study sites that are enrolling new participants.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Clinical Trials: The NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the federal agency that provides funding for most cancer clinical trials. This site provides information on both open and closed cancer clinical trials that are funded by the government, pharmaceutical companies, and some international organizations.

BreastCancerTrials.org: A not-for-profit online service that helps users to find breast cancer-specific clinical trials that might be right for them. The site offers study summaries, a way for users to share their online health history with research sites, and an alert service that notifies users of recently added clinical trials. BreastCancerTrials.org includes studies sponsored by NCI, public research foundations, and the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.

Clinical Trials Advocacy Group for Prostate Cancer (CTAG): CTAG provides a complete listing of all clinical trials that are currently recruiting patients in the United States for the treatment of prostate cancer. Users may search prostate cancer clinical trials by zip code. CTAG translates all clinical trial information into Spanish.

For more guidance on finding a clinical trial, try some of these sources.

• Getting a second opinion from an oncologist with expertise in cancer clinical trials
  
  
• Contacting a patient information resource for a specific type of cancer
  
  
• Contacting the company that makes a specific drug or treatment
  
  
• Calling a local or regional cancer center

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