Clinical trial help for real conversations

Understand clinical trials before you decide

TrialRoots helps patients, families, caregivers, and support people understand clinical trials, look up confusing terms, explore trial listings, and prepare questions for their medical team.

Learn how trials work Explore public listings

How TrialRoots helps

Choose where to begin

Start with learning or public listings, then use the glossary and question tools when they help.

Learn how trials work

Follow the patient, research, and rights trails to understand clinical trials one step at a time.

Good first stop

Explore public listings

Search ClinicalTrials.gov listings by condition, ZIP code, filters, and patient-friendly explanations.

Guided Trial Search is available as an extension of Explore.

Look Up Terms

Search plain-language definitions for cancer and trial words.

Prepare Questions

Gather questions to bring to a doctor, caregiver, or study team.

Clinical trial guide

A calmer path through trial conversations

Use this short path to get oriented before you open the full learning maps.

Learn about clinical trials Use the clinical trial glossary

Why clinical trials matter

Selected articles and resources about participation, access, and the role of understandable information.

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