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Foundation Announces Launch of New Clinical Trial Finder

The Gastric Cancer Foundation and Carebox, a leading provider of clinical trial matching solutions, recently announced the launch of a new gastric cancer Clinical Trial Finder.


The new web application gives patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals an easy and effective way to search and match to gastric cancer clinical trials. Patients or caregivers can complete a questionnaire online for their specific gastric cancer and then instantly see which clinical trials are potentially relevant for them. They can then get connected to a trial site for the next steps. 


Clinical trial navigators are also available over the phone or email to help with the clinical trial search/matching process and then to assist patients and caregivers in taking the next step with nearby research centers or hospitals where the clinical trials are taking place. 

The GCF Clinical Trial Finder makes the latest gastric cancer treatment options more accessible to our community.


Stacie Hershman

Executive Director

The Clinical Trial Finder trial database is synchronized daily with the ClinicalTrials.gov clinical trial data maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Carebox converts the unstructured text in ClinicalTrials.gov that describes eligibility criteria for enrollment, into a searchable index of clinical criteria for matching with patient characteristics. 


Stacie Hershman, the Foundation’s Executive Director explains, “This partnership with Carebox adds an important dimension to our research, education, and advocacy goals. The Clinical Trial Finder makes the latest gastric cancer treatment options more accessible to our community.” 


Access to the new web application is available on our website, which also enables visitors to request a phone or email appointment with a clinical trial navigator without leaving the website.

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Research Roundup

Researchers continue to discover new information on gastric cancer progression to improve survival:


Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that combining a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor with standard chemotherapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced stomach cancer or esophageal cancer compared to chemotherapy alone.


A study from UCSF finds that fibroblast cells transfer key signals to cancer cells and impact their behavior, shedding light on how the tumor environment influences invasion and metastasis within gastric cancer.


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