Clinical Trials 101 Form

Instructions and help about Clinical Trials 101

good afternoon my name is david teachy i'm an attending physician here at the children's hospital of philadelphia and i'm here with megan martin and today we're hoping to talk to patients and families about clinical trials and clinical research currently ongoing at chop the objectives today are kind of going to give a brief overview of how clinical trials have impacted our ability to cure childhood cancer then go through some of the different types of clinical trials and clinical research learn about some of the processes that are involved in participating in clinical trials discuss some of the resources that are available for patients and families at shop and then very briefly go through some of the ongoing clinical trials that are open right now at shop and some of the breakthroughs that are happening in our center every day i think it's important to highlight how much clinical trials and clinical research have impacted cures in childhood cancer and i think this is something that's r