Helping cancer patients find and join clinical trials through navigators
Tests a navigator program helping people with cancer find and enter clinical trials.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Enhancing the Patient Journey to Clinical Trial Enrolment With Navigation to Optimize Accrual
Key facts
- Where
- Thunder Bay and Windsor, CanadaSee the 2 sites
AI summary: who the study is looking for
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The study looks for patients and health care professionals at two Canadian sites, Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. It tests a program that helps people find and enter cancer clinical trials.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- People outside of Thunder Bay and Winnipeg cannot join.
Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
Where in Canada
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences CentreThunder Bay, CanadaContact: Nicole Laferriere, MDTaking people
- Windsor Regional HospitalWindsor, CanadaContact: Caroline M Hamm, MDTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Who runs it
- Windsor Regional Hospital
- Trial code
- NCT06905002
- Record updated
- 30 June 2026
- Original description
Less than 5% of patient enter clinical trials, despite the fact that many patients facing cancer are recommended to seek out clinical trials. One challenge of finding a clinical trial, is the lack of clinical trials at the patient's home cancer centre. The Clinical Trials Navigator (CTN) program was established to help patients, their families and heath care providers navigate the clinical trials systems across Canada in order to identify meaningful clinical trials for patients and help them enter those trials.Read full original descriptionShow less
Enhancing the Patient Journey to Clinical Trial Enrolment With Navigation to Optimize Accrual: A Pilot Study for a Prospective, Pragmatic Multi-centre, Stepped Wedge, Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Less than 5% of patient enter clinical trials, despite the fact that many patients facing cancer are recommended to seek out clinical trials. One challenge of finding a clinical trial, is the lack of clinical trials at the patient's home cancer centre. The Clinical Trials Navigator (CTN) program was established to help patients, their families and heath care providers navigate the clinical trials systems across Canada in order to identify meaningful clinical trials for patients and help them enter those trials.
The CTN program was piloted in Windsor, Ontario and increased clinical trials accrual for this population by 8%. This study plans to roll out to twenty centres across Canada, mimicing the process. This implementation of the CTN program will be tested by adding centres in a sequential fashion until all centres are added over the 12 month period.
The objectives are improved patient enrollment which will be measured by embedded CTNs in each cancer centre, and reporting to the central site.
Pre- and post-implementation structured interviews with administrators, physicians, patients and allied health care professionals will be used to assess uptake of the CTN program in each centre and reveal potential barriers to successful implementation of a nation-wide CTN program.
The ability of the current CTN program to upscale to twenty centres will be measured by turn-around times of patient reports and through the structured interviews.
Inclusion: Limited to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg health care professionals and patients.
Exclusion: People outside of these two expansion sites.