Sentences with phrase «patients about a clinical trial»

June 15, 1:00 p.m. EDT: How to Talk to Your Patients About a Clinical Trial, with Lise Hernandez, RN, MPH, clinical research coordinator at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

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We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

With A3AR drugs demonstrating good safety profiles in clinical trials as anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agents, Salvemini and colleagues are enthusiastic about the potential of these new drugs to treat chronic pain in patients.

Her work has many components: helping community cancer advocacy organizations write research grants, educating community organizations about cancer research, and matching patients from minority communities with clinical trials.

Similarly, patients who chose not to enroll in a clinical trial cited concerns about insurance not covering costs, and fear that their out - of - pocket costs would increase.

«They want to trust that the doctor is doing only things that would improve their health,» Weinfurt says about patients who might enroll in a clinical trial.

The optical prosthetics, tiny enough to be balanced on a fingertip, dramatically improved the vision of about two thirds of the 206 patients studied in a 24 - month clinical trial, according to a new study published in Archives of Ophthalmology.

Medical researchers are talking about starting an online archive where they could post unreviewed results from clinical trials, such as one that tested this light therapy for cancer patients.

«Most patients simply do not know about clinical trials that could help them,» observes Robert Comis, president of theCoalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, which conducts clinical trials for the National Cancer Institute.

An investigation into how patient outcomes are assessed in clinical trials has revealed a worrying lack of consistency, raising concerns about funding being wasted on the acquisition of poor quality data.

When patients sign up for clinical trials to test an experimental drug, procedure or device, they give their informed consent after doctors counsel them about the risks and uncertainty associated with a not - yet - approved intervention.

«Currently, about 80 percent of patients in these clinical trials provide no useful information,» says Dr. Krolewski.

In collaboration with the University College London (UCL) Cancer Trials Centre and the UCL Cancer Institute, Swanton's research group will be following about 850 patients with NSCLC from diagnosis to death as part of a clinical trial to understand tumor evolution.

Researchers running clinical trials planned to stop enrolling new patients, and furloughs were scheduled for all but about a quarter of NIH's 19,000 staff members, who were deemed «essential» to care for patients and maintain animals and cell lines.

Today, just about three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials.

«This is what we have dreamed about: drugs that can be targeted to a patient's specific tumor, to the mechanism that caused the cancer,» says Alice Shaw, Martensen's oncologist and a chief investigator in the Xalkori clinical trial at Mass General.

The key achievement of activists has been to get clinical researchers and their patients talking to each other about what they want out of clinical trials for new drugs.

March 16, 2006 Clinical trial measures ability of focused heat treatment to reduce asthma symptoms The University of Chicago Hospitals is one of about 30 centers around the world, and the only one in Illinois, participating in the Asthma Interventional Research 2 (AIR2) clinical trial, the first U.S. trial of «Bronchial Thermoplasty,» an experimental treatment for patients with moderate to severeClinical trial measures ability of focused heat treatment to reduce asthma symptoms The University of Chicago Hospitals is one of about 30 centers around the world, and the only one in Illinois, participating in the Asthma Interventional Research 2 (AIR2) clinical trial, the first U.S. trial of «Bronchial Thermoplasty,» an experimental treatment for patients with moderate to severeclinical trial, the first U.S. trial of «Bronchial Thermoplasty,» an experimental treatment for patients with moderate to severe asthma.

Georgia CORE aims to increase the skills and competencies of the cancer research workforce; raise awareness about the opportunities and benefits of clinical trials; incorporate the perspectives of patients and survivors into clinical cancer research; advocate for clinical trials financing, regulatory improvement and resource development; promote access to and enrollment in clinical trials; and stimulate dialogue and collaboration among multi-disciplinary cancer researchers.

For more information about cancer clinical trials at Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center: Patients

This could improve patient risk - stratification for clinical trials, aid clinical decision - making, and improve patient / doctor communication about prognosis and treatment planning, Dr. Roncolato said.

Sharma spoke about one example of this approach: a recently launched CRI Clinical Accelerator trial testing a CD40 - based immunotherapy in combination with checkpoint immunotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with pancreatic cancer.

Concerns about immunological consequences of rAAV - mediated gene transfer were substantiated by the outcome of a clinical trial in which human hemophilia B patients were infused into the liver with rAAV -2-F.

«We have been very concerned about reports of patients using unproven medical therapies whose safety and efficacy have not been tested in systematic clinical trials,» he said.

«We have a larger number of patients in our group than on any single clinical trial, so we hope this will be an opportunity for researchers to learn about us and a way for us to learn more about our condition.

«The surge in cancer immunotherapy research and clinical trials has resulted in an unprecedented flood of data about patient responses to immune - based treatment, and we believe these data hold the key to unlocking the full potential of this treatment modality for more and eventually all cancer patients,» said Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., CEO and director of scientific affairs at the Cancer Research Institute.

NIH studies on the issue cite a number of different reasons that patients elect not to participate in clinical trials, including fear of a reduced quality of life, concern about receiving a placebo, potential side effects, and concern that the experimental drug might not be the best option.

Lysogene's MPS IIIA gene therapy clinical trial strategy includes a partnership with the MPS patient networks to ensure families are well informed about our development program and are able to make informed choices concerning the best treatment strategy for their children.

Loyola's patients benefit from our research discoveries; read about Loyola's current clinical trials.

Clinical trials are an important part of my practice, and I often engage in discussions with my patients about participating in an appropriate therapy.

There were multi-disciplinary and international video - conference discussions about the best healthcare pathways for many patients with severe tracheal injuries in 2012, which included patients later operated on as part of the clinical trial based in Russia.

We're very excited about bringing this new series of clinical trials to our patients.

Yet another study, a meta - analysis of seven clinical trials involving about 1,150 patients with bleeding ulcers, found that higher doses of proton pump inhibitors did not reduce the risk of additional bleeding, need for surgery, or death more effectively than lower doses did.

Claremont, CA, United States About Blog What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what's universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial.

Read about clinical activities at the veterinary hospital, including our latest procedures, stories about inspiring patients and their families, spotlights on hospital faculty and staff, and our latest clinical trials.

Claremont, CA, United States About Blog What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what's universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial.

Claremont, CA, United States About Blog What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what's universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial.

Another meta - analysis reached similar conclusions about the equivalence of CBT and BT1 and a recent large - scale clinical trial of BT showed that it was as effective as antidepressant medication for depression.3 While BT and CBT were equally as effective for lower - levels of depression severity, patients with severe depression specifically benefited more from BT than CBT.3 Behavioural activation, which involves graded activity and goal scheduling, is the central component of BT for depression and may be related to a more general mechanism of change that is operating in many different treatments for depression, especially CBT.

Claremont, CA, United States About Blog What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what's universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial.