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About CCR: The Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is home to more than 250 scientists and clinicians working on NCI clinical trials research at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. CCR clinical trials are aimed at answering critical questions about a particular disease or disease process and at identifying promising new therapeutic interventions that can then be confirmed in larger trials carried out across the country at cancer centers participating in NCI-supported research.

Clinical Trials: Clinical trials, also called clinical studies, evaluate investigational methods of treating, diagnosing, and preventing cancer. These investigational methods include approaches to surgery or radiation therapy as well as gene therapy, vaccine therapy, experimental drugs, or various combinations of these treatments.

Clinical trials are among the final stages of a long and careful process of cancer research. Only those treatments that show promising results in tests done in the laboratory are used in clinical trials involving people.

There is no guarantee that the investigational approach will produce good results, but if it is effective, trial participants may be among the first to benefit. You will receive detailed information about the trial and should join a trial only after you understand both the possible risks and benefits. Everyone who joins a clinical trial at the National Cancer Institute is cared for by a team of appropriate experts.

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