Cancer Clinicial Trials

Questions and Answers

1. What treatments are most successful for sarcoma?

   - treatment options for a rare sarcoma
   1 Expert Answer, 1 Community Answer

2. How do I persuade my father to join a clinical trial that could help him fight bone cancer?

   - When a parent with cancer won't join a clinical trial, find out why. Then discuss his concerns, given the research and his own prognosis.
   1 Expert Answer

3. How can we transfer my mom to a cancer teaching hospital?

   - Is there any organization that could help my family with transferring my mom from her current local, non-cancer center hospital to a clinical trials teaching hospital to prolong my mom's precious life?
   1 Expert Answer

Topics, Blog Posts, Articles, Checklists, and To-Do Lists

1. Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment: A Step-by-Step Guide

   Article - How to find and enroll your parent in a clinical trial.

2. Clinical Trials: How to Get an Older Adult Accepted and Enrolled

   Article - How to get an older adult with cancer accepted and enrolled in the best clinical trial available.

3. Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment: A Beginner's Guide

   Article - A clinical trial may offer your parent an effective cancer drug or treatment. Learn the pros and cons of clinical trials, and how to find one.

4. Cancer Patients Fight for Access to New Drugs

   Blog Post - Access to experimental cancer drugs and treatments can save the lives of cancer patients, and the issue has become a heated one.

5. For Cancer Patients, The Right Clinical Trial Can Be the Secret To Survival

   Blog Post - I recently received several desperate pleas from readers asking how to get into a clinical trial I wrote about some months ago. The trial is for Lucanix, a very promising treatment for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This type of cancer, once advanced to stage III or IV, spreads aggressively to bones, liver, and other areas of the body...