Emergingmed.com
(877) 601-8601 toll-free
19 West 44th Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY
10036
Website: http://www.emergingmed.com/
E-mail:ContactUs@EmergingMed.com |
| EmergingMed is a confidential, secure, and free
service to help you find and gain access to clinical trials
that are testing new therapies for cancer. A single short,
anonymous questionnaire – easily answered by patients and
family members – is compared against the enrollment criteria
for ALL of the clinical trials in the EmergingMed database in
seconds. The resulting short list of clinical trials you might
be eligible for can be printed out and discussed with your
doctor. When you decide which of those trials are worth
looking into further, let us know and we will help you contact
the right person at the location where the trial is being
administered |
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CenterWatch
617-856-5900
22
Thomson Place, 36t1
Boston, MA 02210-1212
Website:
http://www.centerwatch.com/
E-mail: |
You can
use this site to find a wealth of information about clinical
research, including listings of more than 41,000 active
industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well
as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved
by the FDA. Our site is designed to be an open resource for
patients interested in participating in clinical trials and
for research professionals
Check out the CCNetwork CRC
trials here |
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CancerTrials
(301)
435-3848
NCI Public
Inquiries Office
Building, 31, Room 10A03
31 Center
Drive, MSC 2580
BETHESDA, MD 20892-2580 USA
Website:
http://www.cancer.gov/clinical_trials
E-mail: |
| ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients, family
members, health
care professionals, and members of the public
easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range
of diseases and conditions. The U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM),
has developed this site in close and ongoing collaboration
with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). |
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Cancer Advisors
(FEE
SITE)800-608-0804
Website: http://www.canceradvisors.org/
E-mail:info@canceradvisors.org |
Cancer
Advisors performs clinical trial research for patients.
Patients can rely on the expertise of a full-time Cancer
Advisors oncologist to determine clinical trials for their
condition. Our oncologists are unbiased and may therefore
recommend any available clinical trial. We remove the
confusion for patients and the daunting task of finding
appropriate clinical trials.
This company was started
by survivors who were simply overwhelmed by databases and
needed an oncologist to go through all of the available trials
and choose their best options. We offer this service at a very
affordable price ($400). In fact, it costs us more to do the
research than $400. (No management person gets paid, only the
docs are paid) However, we want to make the service affordable
and believe that it is crucial in an age were there are so
many options and so little guidance. If a patient can not
afford the service we do it for free! |
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NCI
Cancer Research Portfolio
Website: http://researchportfolio.cancer.gov/
E-mail: |
| Welcome
to the NCI Cancer Research Portfolio Web site. This Web
site provides a structure for searching, organizing, and
analyzing research supported by the National Cancer Institute
by organ/cancer site and/or by broad area of scientific
interest. The areas of scientific interest are identified in
the Common Scientific Outline (CSO), a classification system
created to provide a common approach to comparing and
assessing cancer research supported by different funding
organizations |
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Sanofi-Synthelabo
212.551.4000
90
Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Website: http://www.sanofi-synthelabous.com/excellence/cancer.html
E-mail: |
| Sanofi-Synthelabo submitted a New Drug
Application (NDA) for oxaliplatin in combination with
5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-FU/LV) for the first line
treatment of advanced colorectal cancer in July 1999 to the
FDA, which was based on European studies designed for
acceptable endpoints for approval in Europe. FDA determined
that the NDA met the requirements to be accepted for review
and upon completion of their review held an Oncology Drug
Advisory Committee Meeting to discuss the dossier. At the
advisory committee meeting, it was determined that the dossier
did not meet the U.S. requirements for approval for a
first-line indication, which requires two adequate and
well-controlled studies with a primary endpoint of overall
survival. Sanofi-Synthelabo's NDA consisted primarily of two
Phase III studies, of which neither had overall survival as a
primary pre-specified endpoint. The committee and FDA
acknowledged that oxaliplatin had activity in colorectal
cancer, but based on data from other products to date were not
willing to change the U.S. requirements to an alternative
endpoint to support approval in this stage of the disease.
Sanofi-Synthelabo remains committed to the continued
development and registration of oxaliplatin in the United
States for the treatment of colorectal cancer and other
tumors. After several meetings with the FDA and NCI
representatives, the registration studies for second- and
third-line treatment of colorectal cancer have been initiated.
These stages of disease were selected because they represent
an unmet medical need. Thereby, minimizing the number of
patients needed to evaluate an earlier endpoint of response,
and based on FDA regulations, these unmet medical need stages
will allow accelerated review and approval. |
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Genentech's clinical trials
(650) 225-1000
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA
94080-4990
Website: http://www.gene.com/
E-mail:medinfo@gene.com |
| Genentech's clinical trials are crucial to the
exploration of new therapies that may address the significant
unmet medical needs of today, and tomorrow. |
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Sugen
(a Pharmacia Company)
617-856-5900
230 East Grand Avenue
South San Francisco, CA
94080
Website: http://www.sugen.com/
E-mail: |
| Welcome
to SUGEN - A pioneering biopharmaceutical company
developing drugs to target the regulation of signal
transduction pathways inside the body's cells. Aberrations in
this signaling process have been shown to cause a variety of
serious diseases. Focusing on this critical cellular process,
SUGEN is employing an integrated array of drug discovery and
development technologies to create a broad pipeline of novel
pharmaceuticals to fight cancer and other illnesses
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Veritas Medicine
(617) 234-1500
238 Main Street
Suite 501
Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02142
Website: http://www.veritasmedicine.com
E-mail:info@veritasmedicine.com |
Veritas
Medicine is an online health resource focused on improving
patient access to clinical trials and information about
therapies in development for serious medical
conditions.
The centerpiece of the Veritas Medicine
website is a comprehensive clinical trials database that
allows patients to be matched to clinical trials based on
information submitted confidentially.
The clinical
trial matching tool is supplemented with original,
high-quality information about current and investigational
treatments developed by physicians from leading academic
medical centers. This information assists patients and health
professionals in making informed decisions regarding their
treatment options. |
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Cancer Consultants.com
Website: http://www.cancerconsultants.com/
E-mail: |
| Clinical
trials are studies that evaluate the effectiveness of new
drugs and/or treatment strategies (interventions in patients).
Each clinical trial is designed to find new or better ways to
treat cancer. This feature presents an overview of some
presently available clinical trials.
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Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, Inc
1-877-520-4457
Website: http://www.cancertrialshelp.org/
E-mail: |
| The
Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups is dedicated
to ensuring the continued opportunity for cancer patients to
participate in clinical trials. Patients face many barriers to
participating in clinical trials. The Coalition is trying to
break down these barriers by working with patient advocate
organizations, physicians, nurses and other oncology
professionals to improve and enhance the way we conduct
research. |
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Website: http://www.mskcc.org/
E-mail: |
| You can
find descriptions of some of the newest clinical trials at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. |
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Cancer Index
Website: http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks4t.htm
E-mail: |
| Cancer
clinical trials are controlled studies of people with cancer
which are crucial to the development of new and better
treatments. Clinical trials answer specific questions about a
new treatment or a new way of using existing treatments. Often
randomised clinical trials compare the best known standard
therapy with a newer therapy to see if one produces more cures
and causes fewer side effects than the other |
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Cancer Clinical Trials Directory
(301) 827-4460
Food and Drug Administration
5600
Fishers Lane, HF-12, Rm. 9-49
Rockville, Maryland
20857
Website: http://www.fda.gov/oashi/cancer/trials.html
E-mail:oshi@oc.fda.gov |
| Cancer
patients and their family members are frequently in search of
information about the latest drugs being researched to treat
the patient's cancer. That drug research is being conducted
through the clinical trials process. We developed this
directory to guide cancer patients and their family members to
some of the locations that conduct cancer clinical trials or
list cancer trials that are being conducted |
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UCSF
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Website: http://cc.ucsf.edu/trials/index.html
E-mail: |
| Clinical
trials are formal, controlled protocols designed to test the
effectiveness of new treatments, including novel drugs, types
of intervention, or combinations of therapy. To view complete
information about cancer clinical trials at the UCSF
Comprehensive Cancer Center, choose Adult Trials or Pediatric
Trials here or above to view an index of clinical trials for
each category |
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The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1-800-392-1611
1515 Holcombe
Blvd
Houston, TX 77030
Website: http://www.mdanderson.org/
E-mail: |
| The
purpose of a clinical trial is to determine whether a new
treatment option is safe, effective and a better alternative
to current standard care methods. Volunteer participation by
men and women of all races and ethnicities is essential, if
researchers are to find the best treatment regimens. Here, you
can learn more about clinical trials--how they work, and how
to participate |
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Cancer Web
Website: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/
E-mail: |
| In cancer
research, a clinical trial is an organized study conducted in
people with cancer to answer specific questions about a new
treatment or a new way of using a known treatment. Each study
tries to increase medical knowledge and to find new and better
ways to help cancer patients. Besides studying new anticancer
drugs, clinical trials study new combinations of drugs already
used in cancer treatment, new ways of giving treatment, and
how changes in lifestyle can help cancer patients or prevent
cancer from occurring. Other clinical trials compare the best
known standard therapy with a newer therapy to see if one
produces more cures and causes fewer side effects than the
other |
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Texas
Cancer Online
1-409-586-3002
P.O. Box 96
Pineland, TX 75968
Website:
http://www.jasper-web.com/
E-mail:jim@jasper-web.com |
| The
development of more effective cancer treatments requires that
the therapy be evaluated with cancer patients. These tests are
carefully monitored, evaluated and scrutinized by the
physicians and researchers involved with the treatment. Each
clinical trial is designed to find new or better ways to treat
cancer patients. Clinical trials involving cancer are divided
into four phases. Each phase is designed to determine specific
information about the potential new treatment such as its
risks, safety and effectiveness compared to standard therapy
with the hope that the new therapy will be an improvement over
the previous standard therapy or the addition to standard
therapy for improved results |
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Greenebaum Cancer Center
1-800-492-5538
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICINE
22 South Greene
Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Website: http://www.umm.edu/
E-mail: |
| In cancer
research, a clinical trial is a study conducted with cancer
patients, usually to evaluate a new treatment. Each study is
designed to answer scientific questions and to find new and
better ways to help cancer patients |
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Chao
Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
(714) 456-8200
101 The City Drive
Bldg. 23; Route
81
Orange, CA 92868
Website: http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/
E-mail: |
| The
Clinical Research Office coordinates the activities for
clinical research studies conducted by UCI Cancer Center
members. The office provides information on protocol
availability and accrual; coordinates institutional clinical
studies with cooperative groups and other studies; and
performs quality control and administrative oversight
functions. |
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Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
(858) 450-5998
10835 Altman Row
San Diego, CA
92121
Website: http://www.skcc.org/
E-mail: |
| As
described in our About the Center pages, SKCC's research
focuses on developing biological treatments for cancer that
are distinctly different from traditional treatments like
chemotherapy and radiation. Most of the basic research efforts
are described in our Laboratory Research pages under the
various organized research programs. |
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Stony
Brook Cancer Center
(631)
689-8333
Website:
http://blackwidow.informatics.sunysb.edu/
E-mail: |
| When
diagnosed with cancer, many patients feel overwhelmed and
unsure about which course of treatment to pursue. The Cancer
Center at Stony Brook has prepared this web site to help those
facing such serious decisions to make informed choices about
their treatment. |
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The
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
(410) 955-8964
Website: http://www.hopkinscancercenter.org/
E-mail: |
| Clinical
research is derived from the discoveries made in basic science
laboratories. By, in effect, translating this knowledge from
the labs to the patient setting, researchers can develop new
treatments, improved therapies, and prevention strategies
through clinical research studies, or clinical trials. The
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center has a rich history in clinical
research including bone marrow transplantation, experimental
pharmacology, cancer vaccine therapy and genetic testing as a
result of the collaboration and integration of basic science
and clinical research. Such an effort enables us to offer our
patients some of the most novel and promising
therapies |
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