caBIG™ Feature – October 2006

Clinical Trial Matchmaking Made Easy

For one out of every eight American women, breast cancer will become a painful reality. For breast cancer patients in the San Francisco area, caBIG™ technology is already a reality in their treatment and education.

Created by patients for patients, BreastCancerTrials.org (BCT) matches patients’ medical case histories to ongoing clinical trials in the greater San Francisco and Sacramento areas. BCT is the online version of a caBIG™ tool called caMatch. It saves patients precious time and energy, while also giving them greater options in seeking out trials that may improve their condition.

Launched in June 2006, BCT is the brainchild of Joan Schreiner and Joanne Tyler, two breast cancer advocates who were frustrated by the arduous process of qualifying for clinical trials and overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Realizing that the Internet held much potential for breast cancer patients, but that clinical trials lacked a centralized application process, they conceived BCT as a non-profit web-based service that would match breast cancer patients to clinical trials.

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