In 2004, Ms. Myers enrolled in a clinical trial at the Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute, where she had an occipital nerve stimulator surgically implanted.
She enrolled in a clinical trial to test an unproved form of chemotherapy, for example, because it was free.
AIDS activists demanded what they called "expanded access," arguing that AIDS patients who were not enrolled in a clinical trial should be allowed to take experimental drugs under the supervision of their personal physicians.
He had found the Web site of a man from South Carolina with leukemia, who had enrolled in a clinical trial of an experimental drug, now called Gleevec, and had experienced a remarkable remission.
Prior to its regulatory approval, a drug is generally restricted to use in patients who are formally enrolled in a clinical trial.
Teenagers treated at pediatric medical centers are far more likely to be enrolled in a clinical trial, Dr. Bleyer said, but he added, "Depending on the cancer, some are better off being treated at the adult center".
Rowe tried to obtain one of the drugs through a provision in F.D.A. regulations known as "compassionate use," which allows pharmaceutical companies, with the agency's permission, to release an experimental drug to a patient who is not enrolled in a clinical trial.
Because of progressive disease in the brain, she was enrolled in a clinical trial with vandetanib and everolimus (NCT01582191).
The disease activation was not controlled by increase in the dose of IMT; therefore, the patient was enrolled in a clinical trial of local treatment of another IMT.
For this analysis, we focused on patients with sepsis-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who were enrolled in a clinical trial of rosuvastatin for ARDS [9].
Screen failures, defined as individuals who undergo screening but are not enrolled in a clinical trial, incur significant costs without contributing valuable data to the study.
