CHICAGO – Metastatic Trial Search was launched in 2015 by ClinicalTrials.org to make it easier for patients with metastatic breast cancer to consider clinical trials as a routine option as they are making treatment decisions with their physicians.
In a video interview, Shirley A. Mertz, JD, president of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, describes the tool, the mixed response from physicians, the barriers to trial participation still faced by patients, and the tweaked version 2.0 of the search tool, expected to launch by the end of this year.
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