Clinical Trials

The following is a list of ongoing clinical trials at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. To learn more, and find out if you are eligible to participate in a clinical research trial, please contact the clinical research nurse at: 508-236-7059.

Breast Cancer

CALGB-40101: Adjuvant therapy for women with breast cancer and 0-3 positive axillary lymph nodes.

CALGB-369901: Observational study of women age 65 or older with operable, newly diagnosed breast cancer.

CALGB-70301: A quality of life, employment and informal care cost analysis in women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. (Companion study to CALGB-40101)

SWOG-0307: A Phase III trial of bisphosphonates as adjuvant therapy for primary breast cancer.

ECOG PACCT-1: A program for the assessment of clinical cancer tests.

NSABP B-40: Neoadjuvant therapy in patients with palpable and operable breast cancer.

NSABP B-42: Letrozole in treating postmenopausal women who have received hormone therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Colon Cancer

SWOG S0600: Phase III trial of irinotecan based chemotherapy plus cetuximab with or without bevacizumab for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Lung Cancer

SWOG S0424: Molecular epidemiology case-series study of non-small lung cancer in non-smoking women and men.