Enhancing the Patient Journey to Clinical Trial Enrolment With Navigation to Optimize Accrual

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06905002

Run by

Windsor Regional Hospital

People needed

300

Starts

2025-04-01

Expected to finish

2028-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-30

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Limited to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg health care professionals and patients;

You may not qualify if…

• People outside of these two expansion sites

Where it is running

• Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre — Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)
• Windsor Regional Hospital — Windsor, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)

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