What are the different types of clinical trials?
Clinical trials can typically be categorized into several different types, including:
- Therapeutic trials that enroll patients and provide a specific treatment to the patients to study its impact on cancer.
or
- Non-therapeutic trials that do not provide a treatment to patients, but instead study important factors which help advance the understanding of cancer and its impact.
Clinical trials of all types take place all over the country:
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)[/caption]
The NCI Cancer Centers Program is the backbone of NCI’s effort to study and control cancer. As of June 2023, there are 72 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, located in 36 states and the District of Columbia. At any given time, hundreds of research studies are under way at the cancer centers, ranging from basic laboratory research to clinical assessments of new treatments
Visit the National Cancer Institute to learn about other types of clinical trials.