Clinical Trials are essential to ongoing improvements in health care, and are an important part of Northern Health Cancer Services. Clinical trials help to investigate the effectiveness of new treatments by comparing them with existing treatments, as well investigating the effectiveness of new tests and other interventions. Clinical trials are offered to patients who meet particular trial criteria. Trial participation may benefit the individual patient or may lead to improvements in outcomes for future patients. It is important to note that trial participation is completely voluntary.
The Cancer Clinical Trials Unit at Northern Health runs clinical trials for patients with different types of cancers including both haematological (blood) cancers and oncology (or solid tumour) cancers to enable local access to clinical trials for members of our community.
All clinical trials conducted at Northern Health are done so under Australian and international guidelines for medical research under the approval of a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and the Northern Health Research Development and governance Unit.
Northern Health Clinical Trials Unit has many years of experience in Cancer Clinical Trials, our consultants are experienced in most types of cancer and have recruited to Cancer Clinical Trials as both Principal Investigators and Associate Investigators.
We value our partnerships with Walter and Eliza Hall institute of Medical Research (WEHI) and Alfred Health. These partnerships enable us to offer patients within our community access to translational studies for upper Gastrointestinal, and Colorectal Cancers through the WEHI and allows access to Multiple Haematology and Solid Tumour clinical trials with Alfred Health.
Northern Health have a number of Cancer Clinical Trials open for recruitment including;
Haematology cancer diagnosis including;
- Elderly Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
- Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML), Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukaemia (MPAL), Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia (CMML), and Higher-Risk
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
- Multiple Myeloma (MM)
- Indolent Lymphoma
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)
Oncology cancer diagnosis including;
- Lung cancer
- Colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Upper gastrointestinal cancers such as pancreas
- Breast cancer
- Prostate cancer
Director/Head of Unit:
Dr Belinda Lee
Unit Leader
Lisa Walker
Contact Information:
Email: cancerclinicaltrials@nh.org.au
Phone: 0437 954 779
