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Welcome to Franciscan St. Francis Health's Clinical Trials Web site.
Clinical trials are research studies that involve people. These studies test new
ways to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat diseases. People who take part in cancer
clinical trials have an opportunity to contribute to scientists’ knowledge about
cancer and to help in the development of improved cancer treatments.
Benefits
Clinical trials that are well-designed and well-executed are the best approach for
eligible participants to:
- Trial participants have access to promising investigational interventions that are generally
not available outside of a clinical trial
- The intervention being studied may be more effective than standard therapy. If it is more effective,
trial participants may be the first to benefit from it.
- Trial participants receive regular and careful medical attention from a research team that includes
doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.
- The results of the trial may help other people who need cancer treatment in the future.
- Trial participants are helping scientists learn more about cancer (e.g., how it grows, how it acts,
and what influences its growth and spread).
Risks
There are risks to clinical trials.
- The investigational intervention being studied may not be better than standard therapy, or it may
have harmful side effects that doctors do not expect or that are worse than those associated with
standard therapy.
- Trial participants may be required to make more visits to the doctor than they would if they were
not in a clinical trial and/or may need to travel farther for those visits.
Choosing to participate in a clinical trial is an important personal decision. It
is often helpful to talk to a physician, family members, or friends about deciding
to join a trial. Cancer clinical trials are especially important because, in the
absence of high cure rates, nearly all therapeutic approaches are developmental
in nature. After identifying some trial options, the next step is to contact the
study research staff and ask questions about specific trials. People should know
as much as possible about the clinical trial and feel comfortable asking the members
of the health care team questions about it, the care expected while in a trial,
and the cost of the trial.
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Our Search Tool will allow you to find a Clinical Trial by:
- Cancer Site
- Keyword
- Trial
Type
- Treatment
- Trial Name
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