Dayton Clinical Oncology Program (DCOP) is a nonprofit organization serving the Miami Valley area as well as Xenia, Troy, Middletown, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Through the National Cancer Institute, and participating area hospitals and physicians, DCOP is able to offer state-of-the-art cancer prevention and treatment options to its service area.

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ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. The federal government site gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for learning more details. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine, developed the site in collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service provides a wealth of information related to clinical trials, such as a listing of more than 41,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA. This commercial site is designed both for patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research professionals.

The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials site offers a simple way to search NCI's comprehensive Physician Data Query (PDQ®) database of cancer clinical trials based on the type of cancer or the location of a trial and a more focused search function that makes it possible to narrow your search by type of treatment, drug/agent, hospital/institution, or city and state.