How will you know if you are eligible to participate?
Each clinical trial has eligibility criteria. Eligibility criteria are requirements that patients must meet before they can participate. Such criteria might pertain to:
- Age and sex
- Type of cancer
- Stage (extent) of the cancer
- Previous treatments that you must, or must not, have had
- Length of time since you last received treatment
- Results of certain laboratory tests
- Medicines that you are taking
- Other medical conditions
- Previous history of any other cancer
If you have found a clinical trial that might make sense for you, talk to your doctor to see if you qualify, or contact the clinical trial's principal investigator or research nurse.
