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Mesothelioma Clinical Trial: Cancer
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To learn more about mesothelioma clinical trials, you can visit the clinical trials page on the National Cancer Institute Website. You can ... find information about clinical trials on the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) Website.
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[B]efore you sign up to any clinical trial, be sure you will be able to attend all the routine tests and studies that will be performed, and check your time commitments as well. Clinical trials are usually done in large cancer centers, so be sure you can commute to one with ease.
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The business of most clinical trials matching firms is based on receiving a fee for listing studies or getting a "finder’s fee" from those running the studies when someone enrolls. Because of this, there may be some differences in the way they "rank" or present the studies to you. The clinical trials information provided by the American Cancer Society is not biased in any way by whether the trial is funded by the government or by pharmaceutical or biotechnology firms.
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Nonetheless, says James Doroshow, M.D., director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis at the National Cancer Institute, “this study demonstrates that the risk of participating in early clinical trials has decreased substantially. The fact that traditional response criteria [tumor shrinkage] were used means that the potential clinical benefit of the therapies studied - in terms of quality of life benefit or prolonged disease stabilization - was probably underreported.
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Some health insurance coverage does not cover treatments considered "experimental," and clinical trials are often counted among these. Be sure to check with your insurance carrier, or contact the National Cancer Institute at 1-800-4-CANCER for other solutions.
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**Packet includes information on specialists, treatments, clinical trials, cancer links, and how to access legal and financial resources. You will be contacted by a Mesothelioma Web co-ordinator who will be available to discuss questions you might have.
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