Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are used to test new treatments or novel uses for currently available treatments. A number of treatments that we now use routinely were first shown to be effective through clinical trials. Clinical trials are therefore of great importance in furthering the standard of medical care around the world.

The Cancer Clinical Trials Team (formerly part of the Scottish Cancer Therapy Network - SCTN) was set up with the main objective of promoting, supporting and facilitating recruitment into Randomised controlled clinical trials (a trial where neither the doctor nor the patient knows what treatment will be allocated) and to offer a complete service for the administration of clinical trials in cancer throughout the country.

Please click on the trial names listed below for information on the trial protocols.