Windsor enrolment program for cancer clinical trials to expand into Thunder Bay and Winnipeg – CBC

Mar 27, 2024

A Windsor, Ont. program that helps connect cancer patients to clinical trials is now planning to expand after receiving its first national grant.

The Clinical Trials Navigator program, founded by Caroline Hamm, helps people with cancer find alternative and experimental treatments by connecting them to clinical trials they are eligible for.

The program was also developed alongside former Windsor Regional Hospital board chair and cancer patient Ron Truant.

“What we do is we navigate a system that is really difficult for everybody to navigate,” says Hamm, who is a medical oncologist at Windsor Regional Hospital’s cancer program.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-program-cancer-clinical-trials-1.7155874?cmp=rss

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