Treatment-Clinical Trials
Current Clinical Trials
For information about current clinical research trials for thyroid cancer and other diseases, go to the following U.S. Government website: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. This is the website for the U.S. Government’s Clinical Trials Database. This database provides information about clinical research trials for thyroid cancer and other diseases. This list describes clinical trials that are recruiting new participants.
The National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, developed this database and web site. The goal of this database is to provide patients, family members, and members of the public with current information about clinical research studies.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Clinical Trials for Thyroid Cancer
The following U.S. Government web site lists current clinical trials, as well as completed clinical research trials and studies that are ongoing but that are not recruiting new participants: http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/. This site is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Searching for Clinical Trials Through NCI Cancer Centers’ Web Sites
In addition to the web sites listed above, the Web sites maintained by NCI-designated Cancer Centers are supplementary resources for locating clinical trials. Here is the web site with further information and links to the NCI-designated Cancer Centers: http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search.
Thyroid Clinical Trials Site
ThyroidTrials.org is the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) compendium of clinical trials for thyroid diseases, including thyroid cancer. The ATA Trial finder is a one-stop site to search multiple information sources, including public and private information sources and trials screened by experts from the American Thyroid Association.
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