�The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has proclaimed the launch of the Center for Clinical Trials Education (CCTE), a resource for the great unwashed interested in learning around and joining lupus clinical trials.
The initial programs of the CCTE include a Website and a series of grassroots community education programs on clinical research offered through the LFA's electronic network of 38 chapters about the land.
The CCTE Website has extensive entropy about clinical trials and clinical tryout participation. It includes information on the rights and responsibilities of study volunteers and a list of important questions for person with lupus to consider before joining a study. A trial-locating service on the Website has links to existing lupus clinical trials. Visitors can incur details around individual studies, whether they are seeking volunteers, and the medical centers where the trial is existence conducted. Future enhancements to the Website include a registry where individuals with lupus can volunteer to participate in current or future trials underway in their area.
"The ontogenesis number of lupus clinical trials and the emerging level of interest among people with lupus about clinical research led us to the decision to create this new center," said Sandra C. Raymond, the LFA's president and chief executive officer. "We have already seen an increase in demand for people with lupus to serve as study volunteers. At the same time, people with lupus feature voiced frustration in finding trusted info to make informed decisions about connection a trial. The CCTE will help meet those needs."
Increased efforts to develop better treatments get created new challenges that the LFA is working to address. According to Ms. Raymond, currently there are more or less 51 lupus clinical trials and 37 compounds being tested as lupus treatments. She estimates that as many as 22,500 people with lupus will be required as volunteers for inquiry studies in the future year. The CCTE will make it easier for people with lupus to identify trials underway in their region.
The LFA is partnering with the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP), an self-governing and internationally recognized nonprofit organization consecrate to clinical research education Department. Through this relationship the CCTE Website is providing information around clinical trials in English and Spanish tailored to people with lupus.
"Whether to enter in a clinical trial at a given time is a very personal decision," noted Joan T. Merrill, M.D., medical theater director of the LFA. "Sometimes it makes sense to participate if current treatments aren't working, if thither are side effects of the treatments a person is pickings, or just because it's clear that without clinical trials, in that respect won't be progress in treating lupus. But not everyone is a candidate for a clinical trial. People pauperism to speak to their doctor but also do their preparation to teach as very much as they can about what's convoluted before they volunteer for a clinical trial. The Lupus Foundation of America's CCTE provides a way for them to have that data, from a source they trust."
About Lupus
Lupus is an autoimmune disease which is the termination of an unbalanced immune system that can get destructive to any major organ or tissue in the body. Lupus is unpredictable and potentially fatal, yet no satisfactory treatment or cure exists. Its health consequences may include heart attacks, strokes, seizures, or sudden organ failure. Current treatments include immune-suppressing agents, which have toxic side personal effects, increasing risks for infections and other bodily impairment. The LFA estimates that more than 1.5 million Americans have some form of lupus. Despite the prevalence of lupus, there has not been a unexampled treatment sanctioned specifically for lupus in the past tense four decades.
Although lupus can strike any soul at any age, baseball club out of 10 people with lupus are women, and the disease ordinarily (or nearly often) develops between the ages of 15 and 45. Lupus is two to ternion times more common among women of color-African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asians.
About the Lupus Foundation of America
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is the nation's foremost nonprofit voluntary health organization dedicated to determination the causes of and cure for lupus, and providing support, services, and hope to all people affected by lupus. The LFA and its electronic network of closely 300 chapters, branches, and support groups conduct programs of inquiry, education, and advocacy.
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