Recruiting

Clinical Trials Navigator

Sponsor:

Windsor Regional Hospital

Code:

NCT06905002

Conditions

Cancer

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Educational program

Study Details

Brief summary:

Less than 5% of patient enter clinical trials, despite the fact that many patients facing cancer are recommended to seek out clinical trials. One challenge of finding a clinical trial, is the lack of clinical trials at the patient's home cancer centre. The Clinical Trials Navigator (CTN) program was established to help patients, their families and heath care providers navigate the clinical trials systems across Canada in order to identify meaningful clinical trials for patients and help them enter those trials.

The CTN program was piloted in Windsor, Ontario and increased clinical trials accrual for this population by 8%. This study plans to roll out to twenty centres across Canada, mimicing the process. This implementation of the CTN program will be tested by adding centres in a sequential fashion until all centres are added over the 12 month period.

The objectives are improved patient enrollment which will be measured by embedded CTNs in each cancer centre, and reporting to the central site.

Pre- and post-implementation structured interviews with administrators, physicians, patients and allied health care professionals will be used to assess uptake of the CTN program in each centre and reveal potential barriers to successful implementation of a nation-wide CTN program.

The ability of the current CTN program to upscale to twenty centres will be measured by turn-around times of patient reports and through the structured interviews.

Conditions

Cancer

Study ID

NCT06905002

Start date

Apr 1, 2025

Status verified date

Jun, 2026

Completion date

Jul, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Limited to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg health care professionals and patients;

Exclusion Criteria:

  • People outside of these two expansion sites

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Sequential

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Cohort 1: Patients: Pre and post intervention

In the two time periods: pre - intervention and post-intervention, patient charts will be reviewed to assess referral to and accrual onto clinical trials outside of their home cancer treatment centre.

active comparator: Cohort 3: Physicians and Health Care Professionals

This group will be followed throughout the pre and post intervention period with regular surveys requesting input on number of patients referred to and accrued onto clinical trials outside of the patient's home cancer treatment centre.

Interventions

Educational program

Unique educational program that educates health care professionals on the unique advantages of the Clinical Trials Navigator program. This program is reserved for those centres entering the study. An interactive component of the study is central.

Primary outcome measure

  • At least a 10% increase in the number of patients from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg referred to clinical trials outside of the patient's home cancer treatment site. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
  • At least a 5% increase in the number of patients from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg enrolled onto clinical trials outside of the patient's home cancer treatment site. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Caroline Hamm, MD

15192535253caroline.hamm@wrh.on.ca

Locations

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Recruiting

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, P7B6V4

Contacts

Nicole Laferriere, MD

(807) 684-6000nicole.laferriere@tbh.net

Windsor Regional Hospital

Recruiting

Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N8W 1L9

Contacts

Caroline M Hamm, MD

5192535253caroline.hamm@wrh.on.ca

More Information

Sponsor

Windsor Regional Hospital

Last update posted

Jun 30, 2026

Last verified

Jun, 2026

Keywords

  • Clinical trials navigator

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Windsor Regional Hospital on 2026-06-30.