What is a clinical trial?
Clinical trials are research studies conducted with patients. They focus on either the prevention or treatment of diseases. Prevention trials recruit healthy people to study agents that have the potential of stopping disease before it ever starts. Treatment trials target people suffering from specific diseases to test the effectiveness of new medications, compare standard treatments with new ones, or test at a combination of medications and other treatments, such as surgery or radiation.
West Virginia University and the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center are recognized nationally as clinical trials sites. Our cancer research is particularly focused on the types of cancers most common in West Virginia. Those are lung, breast, prostate, and colon/rectal cancers. We are always interested in recruiting new participants for one of the many clinical trials being offered.
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