How can I participate?
Your doctor proposes it to you.
Sometimes, doctors will propose you to participate in a clinical trial. You have the right to accept or refuse without any consequence on the quality of your treatment.
You tell your doctor that you want some help to find a clinical trial for you.
If your doctor does not propose any clinical trial but you really want to participate, the best way is to ask your doctor or oncologist if there is any clinical trial for your type of cancer implemented near your home or in your country. Clinical trials are registered and your doctor might know how to look for clinical trials.
You can also ask your doctor on the possibilities of participating in a clinical trial in another country if none is available in your country. The possibilities of doing so vary from one country to another. Feel free to contact your health insurance, patients’ organizations or any other support to make it possible if this is important for you.
You search yourself for a clinical trial.
You can also search for a clinical trial yourself. To enter in a clinical trial, there are criteria to be fulfilled like age, gender, cancer type or previous treatments. RCT provides a tool to search for phase III clinical trials by type of cancer and by country. For Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France and the UK, RCT provides contacts to get more information about the phase III clinical trials currently ongoing.
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