• What is cancer

  • Cells and cancer

    • What cancer is

    • How cells grow

    • The cancer cell

    • How cancer starts

    • Cell types

  • How cancers grow

    • Blood supply

    • Cancer growth

    • Cancer spread

    • Cancer stages

    • Where cancers spread

    • Cancers can come back

  • About your body

    • Blood

    • Lymph system

    • Immune system

    • Hormone system

    • Genes and DNA

  • Statistics

    • About stats

    • Types of stats

    • Looking at research

• Tests

  • Barium X-ray

  • Blood tests

  • Bone marrow

  • Bone scan

  • CT scan

  • Cystoscopy

  • Endoscopy

  • ERCP

  • IVU

  • Lumbar puncture

  • MRI

  • PET

  • PET-CT

  • Ultrasound

  • X-ray

• Treatment

  • Cancer drugs

  • Chemotherapy

    • About chemo

      • What it is

      • How it works

      • When it is used

      • Where you have it

      • Naming drugs

      • What to ask

    • Having chemo

      • Ways to have it

      • Injections and IV

      • Pumps

      • Tablets and capsules

      • What to ask

    • Planning chemo

      • Why plan?

      • Tests

      • Changing the plan

      • What to ask

    • Side effects

    • Living with chemo

      • Everyday life

      • Socialising

      • What to ask

    • Fertility

      • About fertility

      • Women's fertility

      • Men's fertility

      • What to ask

    • Sex and chemo

      • About sex and chemo

      • For women

      • For men

      • Talking about sex

      • What to ask

    • About this section

  • Radiotherapy

    • About radiotherapy

      • What it is

      • Why it is used

      • Your treatment plan

      • Where you have it

      • Who gives treatment

      • Questions for your doctor

    • External radiotherapy

      • About external radiotherapy

      • Radiotherapy planning

        • Preparing your plan

        • Having scans

        • Skin markings

        • Producing your plan

        • Radiotherapy moulds

      • Having treatment

      • Questions for your doctor

    • Internal radiotherapy

      • About internal radiotherapy

        • What it is

        • Safety

        • What to ask

      • Types

        • Caesium

        • Radioactive wires

        • Radioactive iodine

        • Radioactive strontium

        • Radioactive phosphorus

    • Radiotherapy for symptoms

      • Treating symptoms

      • Bone pain

      • Spinal cord compression

      • Pressure and blockages

      • Brain symptoms

      • Lung symptoms

      • Cancer wounds

      • Vein blockages (SVCO)

      • What to ask

    • Radiotherapy side effects

      • General side effects

        • Radiotherapy reactions

        • Blood side effects

        • Tiredness

        • Eating

        • Skin reactions

        • Sex and fertility (women)

        • Sex and fertility (men)

        • Emotional effects

        • What to ask

      • Brain side effects

        • Tiredness

        • Hair loss

        • Feeling sick

        • Worsening symptoms

        • What to ask

      • Head and neck side effects

        • Mouth and teeth

        • Weight loss

        • Swallowing

        • Your voice

        • Hair loss

        • What to ask

      • Chest side effects

        • Swallowing

        • Sickness and weight loss

        • Breathless

        • What to ask

      • Stomach or pelvic side effects

        • Diarrhoea

        • Sickness and weight loss

        • Bladder pain

        • Abdominal pain

        • What to ask

    • Follow up

      • Outpatient appointments

      • Long term side effects

      • What to ask

    • Research

    • About this section

  • Surgery

    • Treating cancer

    • Before surgery

    • After surgery

    • The first few days

    • Going home

    • Long term

    • What to ask

    • About this section

  • Hormone therapy

    • What it is

    • General side effects

    • What to ask

    • About this section

  • Biological therapy

    • About biological therapy

    • Types of biological therapies

      • MABs

      • Cancer vaccines

      • Blood cell growth factors

      • Cancer growth blockers

      • Blood vessel growth blockers

      • IFN and IL2

      • Gene therapy

    • What to ask

    • About this section

  • Transplants

    • Stem cell transplant

    • Bone marrow transplant

    • Having transplant

    • Side effects

    • What to ask

  • Bisphosphonates

    • What they are

    • Side effects

    • What to ask

    • About this section

  • Other treatments

    • Radiofrequency ablation

    • Laser treatment

    • High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)

    • Photodynamic therapy

    • Cryotherapy

  • Complementary and alternative therapies

    • About these therapies

      • Differences between them

      • Why people use them

      • Where you have them

      • Are therapies safe?

        • Safety of CAMs

        • Herbal products

        • Diet supplements

        • Alternative diets

    • Finding a therapist

    • Cost

    • Info on the web

    • Finding more info

    • What to ask

    • Research

      • About research

      • What's new

      • What to ask

    • Therapies

      • Acupuncture

      • Aloe

      • Aromatherapy

      • Art therapy

      • Ayurvedic medicine

      • Black cohosh

      • Carctol

      • Chaparral

      • Chiropractic

      • Echinacea

      • Essiac

      • Flower remedies

      • Gerson therapy

      • Green tea

      • Healing

      • Herbal medicine

      • Homeopathy

      • Hypnotherapy

      • Laetrile

      • Massage therapy

      • Macrobiotic diet

      • Meditation

      • Music therapy

      • Osteopathy

      • Reflexology

      • Reiki

      • Shark cartilage

      • Shiatsu

      • St John's wort

      • Traditional Chinese medicine

      • Visualisation

      • Yoga

    • About this section

    • Reading list

    • Organisations

• Cancer questions and answers

• Causes and symptoms

  • Possible symptoms

  • Screening

  • Prevention

  • Causes

    • What causes cancer

    • Why we don't get cancer

    • Diet

    • Environment

  • Genes and inherited cancer risk

    • About genes, cancer and family history

    • Inherited genes and cancer risk

      • How inherited genes cause cancer

      • Inherited genes and specific cancers

    • Testing for cancer genes

      • Before you decide to have a gene test

      • How to get a cancer gene test

      • Having a cancer gene test

      • Getting the results of a gene test

      • What to ask your doctor about testing for cancer genes

    • About this section

'Trials and research' questions and answers

Search results

Your search retrieved 19 results.

QandA's 1-10 of 19 QandA's

1 | 2 next

1. I have seen a trial on CancerHelp UK that I want to take part in. What do I need to do?

   This page has information about what to do if you are interested in taking part in a trial listed on the CancerHelp UK trials database.…

2. What is the IMPORT trial for breast cancer?

   This page tells you about the IMPORT radiotherapy trials for breast cancer.…

3. How do I find a clinical trial?

   This page has information about how to find a clinical trial.…

4. Is cannabis a treatment for brain tumours?

   This page has information about research into cannabis as a treatment for brain tumours.…

5. Will umbilical cord blood cells help my baby in the future?

   I need to find out about storing cord blood after birth to help treat future diseases that our unborn child might get.…

6. How are drugs licensed in the UK?

   This page tells you about the drug licensing process in the UK.…

7. Donating blood and tissue samples for research

   This page gives information about donating blood and tissue samples for research.…

8. Herceptin trials in early breast cancer

   This page tells you about clinical trials looking at trastuzumab (Herceptin) for early breast cancer.…

9. Performance status

   What is the WHO performance scale and how does this help doctors decide who can go into a clinical trial or not?…

10. ECMC clinical trials

    This page is on ECMC trials. It explains what ECMC means, what an ECMC trial is, and how you can take part in a trial.…

1 | 2 next

 

Send to Email Address Your Name Your Email Address Evaluate the following expression to continue:
=  

  Cancel

•  About CancerHelp UK

•  Terms and conditions

•  Privacy

•  Cookies

•  Accessibility

•  Contact us

•  Site map