If you are new to this Web site, or new to cancer and clinical trials information, this Guide will introduce you to what kind of resources are here, and where to go to find what's not here. This is cancerTrials, a public information service provided by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The primary mission of cancerTrials is to help people making cancer care decisions to consider clinical trials as an option.
Clinical trials are research studies that involve people.
Each study tries to answer scientific questions and to find better ways to prevent, diagnose or treat cancer. Take a look at our site overview , with snapshots of what's in each major section. The cancerTrials Resources section lists NCI cancer information resources in detail, including Spanish language resources and off-line information sources.