Clinical Trial Resources

 

Clinical Trial Background

• A Patient's Experience With Several Clinical Trials by Ian Liston

• Clinical Trials - Should we Participate? A contemporary analysis of the clinical trial process by W. Aishman.

• How to Read a Paper (important for reading phase I, II, III trial results.)

• Median Explained -- read Jay Gould's "The Median Isn't the Message."

• National Cancer Institute – Cancer Trials; Finding Clinical Trials; Understanding Clinical Trials and other Clinical Trial Resources.

• Israel Barken's "Why Join a Trial" essay: http://www.prostatepointers.org/barken/study.html

• Onconurse Factsheets (http://onconurse.com/factsheets/trials_resources.html)

• Understanding Prognosis and Cancer Statistics -- National Cancer Institute.

Clinical Trials Consortiums

• Cancer and Leukemia Group B www.calgb.org

• National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) - also has links to member websites.  See the NCCN's Clinical Trials page.

• Southwest Oncology Group www.swog.org

Organizations That Help You Find a Trial or Provide Information on Clinical Trials

• Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI for short) has a list of prostate cancer trials from the NCI's website.  They also have a page with additional information on trials.

• Us Too Clinical Trials Pages - access to many resources.

This page updated 20 January 2008 by Howard Hansen