From trial phases to personalized care, here’s how healthcare providers can navigate cancer clinical trials and guide patients to better outcomes.

Clinical trials are a crucial step in medical research, and without adequate numbers of participants, treatments can be delayed or prevented from reaching the health care market.

Having already worked with clinical trial sites in more than 14 states, CTAC will now take its work nationwide, the non-profit said in a May 20 release. To that end, CTAC is launching a campaign to raise $50 million, with early funder Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) already pitching in an additional $2 million.

The reductions in NIH funding and staff are happening at a time when colorectal cancer cases have been rising among younger adults. A report released in 2023 by the American Cancer Society said that the proportion of colorectal cancer cases among adults younger than 55 increased from 11% in 1995 to 20% in 2019.

On Clinical Trials Day, speakers emphasized how lack of representation impacts medical care for Black women and strategies for participation.

A new clinical trial, which has only 28 slots, could be her last hope. However, the cost is nearly $900,000, a sum her family cannot afford. Emily Rogers, a 22-year-old native of Hot Springs, is battling a severe form of lymphoma. Her parents are pleading for help to afford a potentially life-saving clinical trial. (Photo Rogers

A clinical trial done by researchers in Madison, Wisconsin shows how cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness may help treat chronic back pain.

Most clinical trials test new treatments only after cancer has relapsed and grown large enough to be detected on scans. The ALPHA3 trial takes a different approach by focusing on prevention. It combines cutting-edge MRD testing technology with a novel CAR T-cell therapy to address cancer at its earliest stages.