Clinical Trials

Precision Medicine

DCTD works to advance precision medicine oncology by supporting and co-leading precision medicine clinical trials as well as by supporting precision medicine oncology research networks.

Clinical Trials Modernization

NCI is focusing on modernizing clinical trials through streamlining processes for clinical trial design and execution, focusing on essential endpoints, decreasing regulatory hurdles, broadening trial access, and increasing efficiency of data collection.

Clinical Trials Stewardship

NCI has taken steps to achieve more consistency in the conduct and management of clinical trials funded through grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts.

Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP)-Supported Clinical Trials Networks

DCTD's CTEP supports three clinical trials networks that individually focus on either early or late-phase clinical trials.