If you can imagine the fight against all cancer as a war, and the fight against prostate cancer as a battle, then the clinical trials that take place at the Center are skirmishes against the enemy. By precisely addressing very specific clinical questions, clinical trials reveal important information about the safety and effectiveness of new diagnostic methods and treatment strategies. Patients who volunteer their cooperation in the Center's clinical trials avail themselves of the most advanced therapies possible. Their participation also provides researchers with information to better treat future patients and to develop future clinical trials. Clinical trial participants are unsung heroes in the war against cancer.
Some trials study new ways to use radiation and hormone therapy.
Others investigate the use of antibodies to track and locate the spread of metastatic cells throughout the patient's body. Still others involve investigational drugs that may help interrupt and regulate the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. Click here for descriptions of our current clinical trials.