Patient involvement at the Centre for Drug DevelopmentPatient involvement at the Centre for Drug Development
We’re committed to actively involving people affected by cancer in our mission to deliver more treatment options to people with cancer.
Collaborating with patients and bringing their voice into our work helps ensure that our clinical trials are better suited for patients and more patients will be encouraged to participate.
Our Centre for Drug Development patient panel is currently full but we welcome enquiries for future involvement.
Meet our panel members
We work with a dedicated panel of patient representatives from diverse backgrounds who provide input across our clinical trials and other initiatives. We seek this critical input throughout the lifecycle of our trials from the planning stage through to the publication of lay summaries of trial results.
Holly
Sead
Lesley
Ann
Julie
Dee
Jo
Gary
Trialmap: A tailored app for patients on our clinical trials
We collaborated with Stitch and the Cancer Research UK Patient Involvement Network to create Trialmap. We’re currently piloting this app on 3 of our clinical trials. This collaboration creates a unique opportunity for patients to manage their own trial journey.
Patients can use Trialmap to:
- view information about the trial
- contact our nurses for support
- get reminders about appointments
- feedback their experiences
We apply the insights gathered by Trialmap to give our patients the best possible experience by designing clinical trials around them.
DETERMINE trial videos
To explain our DETERMINE trial in a more accessible way, we collaborated with people affected by cancer to develop a set of animations for adults and children.
Insights from our focus groups and our DETERMINE patient representatives highlighted the need to create animations to better explain how the trial works. Patient representatives also supported with content creation, the language we used and our voice over selection.
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Patient involvement at Cancer Research UK
We actively involve people affected by cancer through the Patient Involvement Network. This insight is helping us to beat cancer sooner while ensuring that we're meeting the need of patients and their families and loved ones.
Find a clinical trial
Clinical trials help to find out if a new treatment or procedure is safe.
Visit our webpage to discover useful information and find a trial by cancer type, drug name or trial name.
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