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Clinical Research Institute 

The HSHS Wisconsin Clinical Research Institute is a national leader in cancer research with 40 years of experience. We drive groundbreaking discoveries that bring hope and healing to patients and their loved ones.

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Clinical Trials

More than 1,700 different clinical trials have been provided to more than 5,500 patients across Northeast Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Our relationship with the National Cancer Institute ensures we can offer the most advanced treatment options through clinical trials at all our locations, allowing participants to receive treatment close to home. Each trial is a chance to make a breakthrough and each patient who enrolls in a clinical trial plays a vital role in advancing cancer treatment options, providing hope for all patients.

Why are cancer clinical trials important?

Today, people are living longer lives because of cancer treatments that are the result of past clinical trials. Through clinical trials, doctors determine whether new treatments are safe, effective and work better than current treatments. Participating in a clinical trial can have multiple benefits: 

  • Trial participants can access the latest cutting-edge therapies before they’re available to everyone. 
  • Help find new ways to prevent and detect cancer. 
  • Discover quality of life improvements for people during and after treatment. 
  • Develop better cancer care for future patients. 
  • Add to our knowledge base as we work to better understand cancer.

We believe our work gives families more time, more memories and more hope for the future. 1 in 5 patients at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers chooses to participate in clinical trials for those very reasons, and more.  

Have questions about clinical research? Please reach out to [email protected] or call (920) 433-8889

Current open trials:

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Multiple locations

We continually strive at being a national leader in improving cancer care for all patients. The HSHS Wisconsin Clinical Research Institute and medical and radiation oncology physicians at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers have recently received awards from the National Cancer Institute for their exceptional efforts in enrolling qualified patients in cancer clinical trials.

HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers:

  1. Green Bay: HSHS St. Vincent Cancer Centers at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital
  2. Green Bay: HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center
  3. Oconto Falls: HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers at HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital
  4. Sheboygan: HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers at HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital
  5. Sturgeon Bay: HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Centers at Door County Cancer Center

Financial conflict of interest

We are committed to ensuring financial interests, or other personal interests of investigators, do not compromise or appear to compromise the integrity of research performed at the HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Cancer Research Institute.


Opportunities for you to directly contribute to research

Clinical trials are opportunities for you to directly contribute to the body of knowledge scientists need to prevent, treat and cure cancer. Although significant progress has been made in early diagnosis of cancer and in cancer treatment, there continues to be a large unmet need and many unanswered questions for many type of cancers. Clinical trials provide patients with access to emerging therapies while also helping to provide data needed to improve cancer care and survival overall.

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