Clinical Trials for Cervical Cancer

Clinical Trials Info Sheet
Clinical Trials Info Sheet - What you need to know about clinical trials.

What are clinical trials?

Clinical trials are the final stages of cancer research that assess a potential new drug or therapy that’s already been studied extensively in the laboratory. Trials are carefully monitored scientific studies that involve patients and offer the earliest access to these newest treatment options.

Trials are conducted to determine a drug’s proper dose, how well it works and whether it’s more effective than current standard treatments. All drugs and treatment approaches currently used as standard of care were once studied in clinical trials.

Why it matters

Clinical trials are the only way to access the very latest treatment options, oftentimes years before they become available to other providers. If you have cancer, you need the very best treatment today, not years from now.

Currently, Roswell Park offers clinical trials that provide access to new new treatment approaches, such as:

  • Adoptive cell therapy. This cutting-edge treatment approach uses the patient’s own immune cells, specifically cancer-killing T-cells (T lymphocytes). The T cells (a type of white blood cell) are collected from the patient’s blood, multiplied in the laboratory and returned to the patient to jump-start the immune system’s attack against the disease.
  • New anti-cancer agent. A potential new drug candidate for patients with advanced disease. 

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Available clinical trials

New clinical trials become available every day. Talk to your oncologist about which ones might be right for your cancer.

Cervical cancer clinical trials