Clinical Trials

 

 
The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC cancer care program focuses on a comprehensive array of services available to our patients. An important component of our oncology service line, cancer-related clinical research trials, are offered to patients seen at our facility. Eligible candidates can enroll and be treated right here. The trials provide advantages for our patients such as:
 
  • Participants have access to promising new approaches that are often not available outside the clinical research trial setting.
     
  • The approach being studied may be more effective than the standard approach.
     
  • Participants receive regular and careful medical attention from a research team that includes doctors and other health professionals.
     
  • Participants may be the first to benefit from the new method under study.
     
  • Results from the study may help others in the future.
     
  • Treatment trials test experimental treatments, new combinations of drugs, or new approaches to surgery or radiation therapy.
     
  • Prevention trials look for better ways to prevent disease in people who have never had the disease or to prevent a disease from returning. The approaches may include medicines, vaccines, minerals and lifestyle changes.
     
  • Diagnostic trials are conducted to find better tests or procedures for diagnosing a particular disease or condition.
     
  • Screening trials test the best way to detect certain diseases or health conditions.
     
  • Quality of Life trials (or Supportive Care trials) explore ways to improve comfort and the quality of life for individuals with a chronic illness.
     
Specifically, clinical research trials offer our patients the opportunity to participate in the advancement of evidence-based medicine close to home.

For a list of clinical trials currently available, click here.