Ovar'coming Together
Indiana's Nonprofit Resource & Education Organization for Ovarian Cancer
Ovar'coming Together, Inc.
2625 N. Meridian Street, Suite #108, Indianapolis, IN 46208
Toll Free: 855-855-OVAR | Ph: 317-925-6643 | Fax: 317-925-6673
Ovar'coming Together, Inc. © 2012
Our Mission
Create Awareness
Support Survivors &
Caregivers
Fund Research
Ovarian cancer clinical trials are carefully designed research studies that utilize volunteers to evaluate new treatment options. Researchers carry out ovarian cancer clinical trials to discover ways of improving medical care and treatment for those who have the disease. The purpose of a clinical trial is to determine whether a treatment option is safe and effective. A clinical trial may study new ways to prevent, diagnose and/or treat ovarian cancer.
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) and EmergingMed have joined forces to make sure that patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer know all of their treatment options - including clinical trials. Together, they have launched a national matching and referral service for ovarian cancer clinical trials. Powered by EmergingMed, the service is available by telephone at 800-535-1682 or on the Alliance's website at www.ovariancancer.org.
The matching service is a free and confidential pre-screening and referral service that quickly identifies clinical trials to match each woman's specific ovarian cancer type, stage, treatment history and geographic location. Clinical Trial Specialists are available by telephone to guide patients, families and health care professionals through a search of hundreds of ovarian cancer studies in the United States and Canada. After an initial pre-screening conversation, the Clinical Trial Specialist assists women to make sure they:
* receive a call back from a matched study;
* have any questions answered;
* receive detailed study information to share with their medical teams; and
* that are not alone in this process!
The OCNA Clinical Trials Matching Service is designed to give women matches quickly so they have plenty of time to discuss clinical trials options with their medical team and to weigh the risks and benefits of all their options.
*EmergingMed operates the country's largest cancer clinical trial matching and referral service. More than 70,000 cancer patients have been prescreened and referred to its database of 8,000 cancer clinical trials. The cornerstone of EmergingMed's service offering is confidential, phone-based support through the clinical trial search process by its Clinical Trial Specialists.
Ovar'coming Together does not endorse any specific research study or clinical trial. Be sure to consult with your doctor about finding a clinical trial that may be right for you.
Clinical Trials
Another resource to look to for clinical trial information is ClinicalTrials.gov.
