Are you eligible for a clinical trial?

Clinical trials have their own guidelines to decide who can take part. Researchers call these “eligibility criteria.” Eligibility criteria can be very specific and each study’s eligibility criteria is different. You can’t be in a study if you don’t match its eligibility criteria. So, it’s important to know details about your health.

Standard criteria for entering a trial include:  

• Having a particular type or stage of cancer  

• Having received (or not having received) a particular type of therapy in the past  

• Having specific genetic changes in your tumor  

• Being in a particular age group  

• Medical history  

• Current health status  

Here is an example of how eligibility criteria could be presented to you: