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Cancer Clinical Trial

Mark Joseph S. Tunac, RN

What is Clinical Trial?

Historical Overview

Historical Overview
1887

National Institute of Health Cancer as major health problem

1930s

1937

National Cancer Institute Act


National Cancer Act

1971

Prevention Treatment

Purposes/ Types of Clinical Trial

Screening Diagnostic
Supportive

Prevention

Look for better ways


to prevent disease in people or to prevent disease for returning

Treatment

Testing new treatment option, drug.

New
Surgery

Approaches
or

to

Radiation

Therapy

Screening

Test the best way to detect certain disease or health condition

Diagnostic

Test

for

better for a

procedures diagnosing condition.

particular disease of

Supportive

Explore

ways

to

improve comfort and the quality of life for

individuals
chronic illness

with

Phases of Clinical Trial

Participating in Clinical Trials

Ethics in Clinical Trials

Nurses in Clinical Trials

Nurses in Clinical Trials

Nurses in Clinical Trials

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