Clinical trials are studies that involve people and test many types of interventions.
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What are Clinical Trials?
Clinical trials are studies that involve people and test many types of interventions including drugs, devices, genetic therapies, natural health products, psychotherapies, and lifestyle and preventative care interventions.
Why are Clinical Trials done?
They are done are done to provide research data, or evidence, about the intervention(s) tested. This evidence helps in deciding what therapies or other interventions might work best for people.
How are Clinical Trials designed?
Clinical trials are designed to answer specific questions about an intervention. They are usually designed by a group of people that can include researchers, doctors, scientists, statisticians, sponsors and patients and caregivers.
Download this PDFResearch and Clinical Trials
Please review the links below or watch this video for more information on research and clinical trials.
Clinical Trials
- Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Network
- Canadian Cancer Trials
- Clinical Trials Ontario
- Gliogene: An International Brain Tumour Family Study
- It starts with me
- National Brain Tumor Society (US) Clinical Trial Finder
- Ontario Cancer Trials
- See presentations from past CTO Clinical Trials Conferences
- SEJ A new clinical trial for Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
- VirtualTrials.com
Listing of clinical trials in Canada
Research
- American Brain Tumor Associate (ABTA)
- Brain Cancer Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)
- Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC)
- Cancer Research Society (CRS)
- Canadian Brain Research Strategy (CBRS)
- Childhood Cancer Canada (CCC)
- International Brain Research Organization
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- The Canadian Brain Tumour Consortium
What Brain Cancer Patients Should Know about Clinical Trials
Ashley Adile, an Undergraduate Research Student in Sheila Singh’s Lab, at McMaster University created this video in 2018. This video shares what brain cancer patients should know about Clinical Trials. In a creative and engaging presentation Ashley takes us through what clinical trials entail, who participates and how to get involved.