Trial Design

Oncology clinical trials are complex and require a different approach than trials in many other therapeutic areas. Patient recruitment is among the most challenging obstacles-especially in the United States, where oncology trials have notoriously low participation rates among adult patients. While more than 1.2 million Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer this year, participation in oncology trials remains very low.

Technology enables advances in trial design, but it is the creativity of people that really moves things forward.

Will the new pediatric and ethics initiatives receive enough funding to make them truly work?

A challenge that intersects the global community