Clinical trials are research studies that involve people. Through clinical trials, doctors find new ways to improve treatments and the quality of life for people with disease.
Sam Gage, RN, clinical trial nurse at the Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center, joins Dr. Arnold to discuss cancer clinical trials. What’s the process, facts and myths about trials and more.
Lifelong teacher joins clinical trial to help doctors learn how to prevent colon cancer Carol Cassells has spent a lifetime as an educator, helping children learn about subjects from science
Clinical trials at Nassif Community Cancer Center help pave the way for the future
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has called this a “remarkable moment” in cancer research. Scientists are more knowledgeable than ever about how cancer starts, how it spreads and how to combat it.
The first North American patient to be treated with Radium 223 (Xofigo®) or placebo for a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, has started treatment at Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa, as part of an innovative clinical research study.
Cancer treatments studied today could become the standard of care tomorrow. That’s just one reason why patients consider participating in a clinical trial, says Kimberly Ivester, director at the Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center.
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