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3 CHANGES COMING TO CLINICAL TRIALS

  • Apr 26, 2017
  • 1 min read

If you have a “rare” cancer that doesn’t have a great standard of care, chances are you will be offered a clinical trial. To the general public (which is who we all are before that diagnosis is presented) clinical trials sound like a scary thing. To a cancer patient being told there is no cure, a clinical trial is a lifeline being tossed in a stormy sea. IF you catch it, it MIGHT help save your life.

So how do you pick a clinical trial? Well, first you have to find one that you qualify for. We’re going to assume that you have a doctor who is really helping you and is presenting you with some choices. So you have a couple of clinical trials and the “standard of care” to choose from. How do you decide? Right now, it’s a guessing game, but all of that will be changing rapidly as technology and open access data become more commonplace in the process. Click here to read more


 
 
 

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Dragon Master Initiative works closely with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and more than 32 hospitals as part of the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN). We have helped develop a large-scale database that houses genomic, clinical and environmental data on pediatric brain tumors, and that can be used as a model for research into other types of cancer and rare disease. We support open data projects that share data with the world — not just a select group of hospitals — and that share that data as quickly as possible so we can impact patients of today.

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