How to find a clinical trial

Here's some good information, if you are a lymphoma or leukemia patient, or a caregiver for one. At some point in your journey, finding an active clinical trial could be a lifesaver. Mary Jo and I both feel that a clinical trial here at Vanderbilt using the experimental drug, Ibrutinib, saved her nephew Billy's life. 

Dr. Sharman's CLL & Lymphoma Blog provides a tutorial for finding a clinical trial:

I use the website clinicaltrials.gov almost every day.  It is something I turn to so frequently that I periodically have to catch myself when I explain it to a patient because it isn't completely obvious how to get a good search result.  I thought I would offer a small tutorial. 

The trick is to make a search narrow enough to find what you are looking for without getting overwhelmed by the tidal wave of possible studies.  The second task though is a lot more challenging - figuring out the good studies from the bad ones.  That is a lot harder and often something good to review with your own doc or other patients who are aware of the trial. 

Step 1: Go to the webpage clinicaltrials.gov

Read the entire article from Dr. Sharman here...