In order to be able to research your options, you first need to understand a little about cancer and about your particular situation. There are also some excellent books which can help you to get started and answer many of your questions. If You Are Confronting a Difficult Prognosis Stephen Jay Gould's The Median Isn't the Message offers deep and humane advice about confronting the statistics and finding true hope through reason and understanding. It can also be very helpful to read Stories of other patients and how they've coped with difficult situations. Clinical trials are conducted within a complex system, according to well defined rules.
Some clinical trials are much more promising than others.
Understanding the rules will help you to find the most promising ones. To start out with, you'll probably want to take a look at some of the excellent free resources available on the Internet. But if you're serious about researching the technical literature, then you should read about how to go about doing a literature search. Then you should find out how to access the most powerful medical databases in the world including MedLine. Here you have two choices.