What's New: Detailed Results, Faster Searches

Five improvements to help you understand each trial and get to a usable result sooner.

May 5, 2026

TL;DR: ClinTrialFinder now shows per-trial detail pages with full eligibility breakdowns, ranks results with confidence tiers that explain why each was matched, finishes searches faster (NPC dropped from 23 minutes to 13 minutes), catches more trials by expanding your cancer's synonyms, and ships a smoother wizard.

Trial Detail Pages

Click any trial in your results and you'll land on a dedicated page that shows which eligibility criteria you meet, which still need confirmation with your doctor, and what published evidence the drugs in the trial have.

Trial detail page eligibility breakdown showing three categories: Likely Clear, Your Doctor Can Confirm, and Exclusion Criteria to Review
Eligibility criteria are sorted into three categories: Likely Clear (criteria you appear to meet), Your Doctor Can Confirm (criteria that need clinical verification), and Exclusion Criteria to Review (items to discuss with your oncologist).

No more digging through ClinicalTrials.gov dense text to figure out if a trial is realistic for you. The breakdown separates clear matches from things flagged as "your doctor can confirm," so you can walk into your next appointment with a focused list of questions.

Confidence Tiers and Surfacing Reasons

Each result now carries a confidence label and an evidence level, plus a list of the specific reasons it was surfaced — biomarker overlap, prior treatment history, drug mechanism, or class-level evidence. Risk flags call out concerns to discuss with your oncologist.

A trial result card showing confidence tier (Excellent Match, 90/100), evidence level (Strong Evidence), surfacing reasons (KRAS G12C mutation targeted, post first-line progression, Phase 2 targeted therapy trial), and risk flags (resistance mechanisms emerging, modest PFS improvement)
A trial result card showing the confidence tier (Excellent Match), evidence level (Strong Evidence), surfacing reasons in blue (why this trial fit you), and risk flags in yellow (caveats to discuss with your oncologist).

You see not just what matched, but why. That makes it easier to triage a long list and to explain the rationale to a doctor or family member.

Faster Searches

Two changes to speed up the search pipeline:

Instant pre-filtering by age and stage. Before each search runs its slow per-trial analysis, two fast filters — age and cancer stage — now drop obviously incompatible trials (a pediatric trial for an adult patient, an early-stage trial when you have metastatic disease) so the analysis runs on a smaller set. Trials that pass the fast filter still get the full eligibility check, so nothing realistic gets dropped.

Pipeline-level speedups. A separate set of changes — capping how many drug aliases are looked up per trial, persistent caching of completed extractions, and batch title screening — cut a typical NPC search from 23 minutes to 13 minutes (42% faster). Speed varies by cancer type and how many candidate trials your case generates; complex searches can still take longer.

Wider Coverage via Cancer-Name Synonyms

Many cancers go by multiple names — "cholangiocarcinoma" vs. "bile duct cancer", "NPC" vs. "nasopharyngeal carcinoma", "GBM" vs. "glioblastoma multiforme". Trials don't always use the same label as the one you typed.

The search now expands your cancer name into its known synonyms before retrieving trials, so you catch listings that use a different label. The largest single jump we measured: cholangiocarcinoma went from 3 results to 76 after synonym expansion.

Smoother Wizard

Several improvements to the questionnaire itself:

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