Clinical Trials -  This information is intended to help clarify the purpose and process of these important studies.  This includes information on the different types of clinical trials, what happens in them, the clinical trial process, information on clinical trial phases and more. The clinical trial information which appears on this web site has been selected from materials published by the National Cancer Institute.

CenterWatch Clinical Trials - SPOHNC has partnered with CenterWatch to bring you oral and head and neck cancer clinical trial information.  This is the place to go for specific trial information and trial locations!

NIH Clinical Trials listing - Well over 100 oral and head and neck cancer clinical trials are listed here.  These include trials that are recruiting, not yet recruiting (new) and closed.  This information is published in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

TrialCheck - Clinical trials search on the Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups web site.  This search tool can help you find a local clinical trial that you qualify for.  

Other helpful information - On October 30, 2002 SPOHNC and Cancer Care, Inc. presented a special teleconference titled "Clinical Trials for Oral and Head and Neck Cancer."  The audio archive of this teleconference is available on our Teleconference audio archive page, or click here to listen (you will need the free RealAudio Player to listen to the 1 hour teleconference).  One of the presenters during the teleconference was Pat Delaney, of the US FDA.  Pat presented a discussion about "Cancer Drug Development - What Takes so Long?"  To view the slides of her presentation, click  here.  This presentation is in Flash format (733kb), with 24 slides and accompanying text..

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