To be accepted into a clinical trial, all potential participants must meet the "eligibility criteria" by having similar specific characteristics such as age, gender, disease stage, and previous ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

This is in large part due to clinical trials, says David Nguyen, MD, a medical oncologist at Lowell General Hospital Cancer Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. Clinical trials are research studies that ...