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Clinical trials in Australia

All brain tumour trials registered in Australia can be accessed by searching the Australian Cancer Trials Website or the ANZ Clinical Trials Register.

Some trials might be at a pre-registration stage.

The first website above is derived from entries in the US clinicaltrials.gov website and the ANZCTR website. You can also independently go to the US website http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/search/advanced and enter the words "brain tumours" and "Australia" (no quotation marks) in the relevant search boxes.

This is a link to the (Australian) Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO). According to its website "COGNO's main aim is to conduct investigator initiated and collaborative group trials addressing important clinical questions in patients with brain tumours." The use of the words "investigator initiated" in the context of clinical trials implies that they have not been initiated by pharmaceutical companies.

Knowledge about the status of available trials tends to be passed by word of mouth among oncologists, so you should also ask if your oncologist is planning to be involved in any trials or knows of centres which will be involved.

BTAA will seek to list clinical trial information here when it comes to our attention. We do so with the provisio that we undertake this as a public service only.

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