Clinical Trials at Karmanos Cancer Institute

Clinical Trials

To offer hope and longer life to patients with all types of cancer, Karmanos offers the latest types of therapy through our clinical trials program. Through clinical trials, we are creating new knowledge about how therapies fight cancer and providing national leadership in testing these new therapies.

Advancing cancer care

Karmanos Cancer Institute is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center in metro Detroit. That means patients can access treatments exclusive to Karmanos as well as clinical trials, cancer prevention programs and multidisciplinary teams of cancer specialists — a comprehensive approach you cannot find at a community hospital. Because comprehensive cancer centers are at the forefront of cancer research, they can often handle patient cases that are more complex.

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Highest Quality of Care

To receive the NCI designation, a hospital must demonstrate expertise in research, laboratory, clinical and population-based research. Hospitals must also provide early-phase clinical trials and conduct community outreach and educational activities. At any given time, Karmanos is conducting an average of 700 cancer-specific clinical trials and research projects.

The scientific advances Karmanos researchers make every day help determine treatment options and guide treatment courses. We’re at the forefront of offering treatments that define the new standards of care. Our research programs, which are unique to Karmanos, are bringing safe, effective and groundbreaking treatments from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside. In fact, Karmanos offers more cancer treatments not found elsewhere in Michigan.

Setting the standards for cancer care

From groundbreaking research to the most up-to-date therapies and individualized treatment plans, Karmanos is truly leading the fight against cancer.

We’re committed to being at the forefront of cancer treatment and offering tomorrow’s standard of care today.

KCI Trials App

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has a mobile app, accessible on both Android and Apple devices, providing information about our cutting-edge cancer clinical trials.

The KCI Trials App is FREE and available on the App Store and Google Play.

App Features:

Search for cancer clinical trials at Karmanos Cancer Institute by disease site, keyword, protocol number, phase, or principal investigator
Protocol information displayed includes: title, objective, principal investigator, disease sites, drugs involved, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria
Option to save protocol information to your 'favorites' and email protocol information to a colleague or patient
Buttons to call and email us directly
Information about Phase I studies offered at Karmanos Cancer Institute
Links to other National Cancer Institute resources about cancer