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.
Available Clinical Trials
Why it matters
Participating in a clinical trial is the only way to access the very latest 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. Some highlights of our current trials include:
- Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy. This cutting-edge type of cellular therapy uses your own immune T cells that have infiltrated the tumor. They are multiplied in a laboratory and infused back into your body, where they already know how to find your cancer cells.
- Incorporating personalized biometrics like your physical activity tracked on a wearable exercise tracker, glucose monitoring and other metrics to help personalize your treatment regimen.
- New drug regimens for recurrent, persistent or RAS-mutated disease.