Re: Clinical trial sign up online. cross-post

Tony Lima wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:16:07 GMT, "kr0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hello folks.  I recently found a free online service that will assist you in
> >finding a clinical trial.  The site is
> >http://www.worldhealthsurvey.com/clinical_trials/ and what they do is try
> >and match you up to a number of different clinical trials by type.  There
> >are a number of different cancer related clinical trials currently on the
> >list.  If you are looking to participate in a clinical trial or thinking of
> >finding out more about it, I hope this may help.
>
> I got a little curious about who these folks are. Note that
> I have no idea whether or not they are legitimate. From
> everything I've read it appears they have good, honorable
> intentions.  But you should be aware of what they might do
> with your personal data.  I apologize for the lengthy post,
> but a good deal of the space is quotations from the web
> site.
>
> The following is from
> http://www.worldhealthsurvey.com/terms.php:
>
> "Our Service
> ODS[*] provides users with the ability to
> 1. complete a survey form and/or
> 2. agree to participate in a clinical drug trial (the
> Service).
> By posting your information with ODS, you agree that ODS may
> release your contact information and all information that
> you supplied in the survey form to clinical trial companies.
> <snip>2. We may employ other companies and individuals to perform
> functions on our behalf. They may have access to personal
> information needed to perform their functions, but will not
> be able to legally use it for other purposes.
>
> 3. We might change, sell, reorganize or liquidate via
> bankruptcy this business. If we do, your information will of
> course be one of the transferred assets.
>
> 4. We may release account and other personal information
> when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law,
> to enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other
> agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of
> ODS, our users, or others. This may include exchanging
> information with other companies and organizations for fraud
> protection and credit risk reduction.

Thanks for the heads up Tony.
My server wouldn't show this one to me.
They must have filtered it as "spam", it's posted to numerous newsgroups.
and I just realized to alt.support.cancer, so I'm cross-posting part of your
research back to them.

Here's some clinical trials
http://www.trialscentral.org/
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
http://clinicaltrials.coh.org/asp/default.asp
http://ccr.ncifcrf.gov/trials/patients/
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/clinical_trials/ProtocolTemplate.htm
http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/submitting-clinical-trials

J