Haematology Clinical Trials Team

The Haematology clinical trials team covers all trials relating to blood cancers including Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma. We have numerous Haematology clinical trials open in Edinburgh, including several Early Phase trials. Our team consists of 8 consultants, 1 research fellow, 4 research nurses, 3 data managers and 1 clinical support officer.

The team aims to have a broad scope of clinical trials available and be able offer opportunities for clinical trial participation for every patient during their cancer treatment. However as there are different types of Haematological cancers this means that it can be more challenging to have clinical trials open for every type of disease and for these research studies to be available all the time.

If a patient is keen to be considered for clinical trials, but there is no local study open and available to them, we would be happy to consider referring them to research colleagues at neighbouring cancer centres, such as Glasgow, Newcastle or further afield.

Research in the cancer units

The Edinburgh Cancer Centre has several linked cancer units, based in Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Borders and in West Lothian. Given the importance of research in cancer care, we also have clinical trial teams based in the cancer units, to be able to offer patients clinical research closer to home. We hope to also be able to offer patients in these areas local research studies during their cancer treatment journey, although unfortunately it is not possible to have all studies available to all the cancer units, as naturally there is a smaller population available, and some of these studies are only open to very specific groups of patients. Some newer drugs are also safer being tested within the cancer centre environment, with the available expertise there.

We work closely across SESCRN to ensure all haematologists are aware of open studies available at the cancer centre, and many patients from further afield do choose to enter clinical trials based in Edinburgh.

If you have any questions about clinical trials, your consultant will be very happy to discuss these with you