Clinical Research

What is Clinical Research?

Clinical research is essential to developing knowledge that will increase the understanding, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illnesses.
It involves the use of human subjects, who must always be volunteers and may or may not be ill.
Clinical research usually takes place within the hospital but can also be completed by independent doctors or in specialised centres.
Clinical research is an essential part of ensuring that patients, and indeed all people, can benefit from medical progress.

The Cancerology Centre’s Clinical Research Unit

The Cancerology Centre has its own Clinical Research Unit that is entirely dedicated to Cancerology and located on the 1st floor of the “Cancerology” building. This unit serves to ensure research logistics, this includes all of the work necessary to involve patients in clinical trial programs.

Therapeutical trial programs

The Hôpital Franco-Britannique’s Cancerology Centre provides access to a number of clinical trial programs concerning digestive cancers, breast and cervical cancer, lung cancer, ENT cancers and rare tumours.
The current clinical trials aim to provide the means to evaluate innovative medications (immunotherapy, targeted therapies) or therapeutic strategies.

Research laboratory

The laboratory is dedicated to cancerology research:
– for clinical trial transitional studies (centrifuge, freezing, DNA extraction, PBMC, microscopy, etc.)
– for fluid biopsies