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We understand that a cancer diagnosis is a life changing event for you and your family. Your participation in a research study may offer the best treatment and care available for your diagnosis as well as provide valuable information for future cancer prevention and treatment.
What Are Research Studies?
Research studies, sometimes called clinical trials, test new methods of early detection or treatment in people at risk for cancer or who have cancer. Clinical trials contribute to scientific knowledge and suggest future research directions.
Our Department
The Cancer Research Department is a division of Holy Cross Hospital's Cancer Institute. Several clinical research nurses, research associates and research assistants facilitate public education and enrollment onto cancer research studies.
We understand that a cancer diagnosis is a life changing event for you and your family. Your participation in a research study may offer the best treatment and care available for your diagnosis, as well as, provide valuable information for future cancer prevention and treatment.
Our studies are open to the general public. We offer prevention, treatment and survival cancer studies that encompass breast, colon, lung and ovarian cancers.
We are located on the ground floor in Holy Cross Hospital.
Your Privacy
Holy Cross Hospital will not release your protected health information to others except as authorized by you or required by law. Once your protected health information is shared with a group or individual that is not required to follow federal privacy laws, Holy Cross Hospital cannot assure that the information will remain confidential.
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