If you are searching for new treatments for childhood cancer, here is a list of reliable resources that provide information about clinical trials for children:

National Cancer Institute Cancer (NCI) Trials
CancerTrials contains information about NCI- sponsored clinical trials on childhood cancer. The Cancer Information Service (1-800-4-CANCER in the US) has trained attendants who can search the NCI trials database and provide other cancer information.

Children's Oncology Group (COG)
COG is a NCI-supported clinical trials cooperative group, devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research. COG develops and coordinates cancer clinical trials at 238 member institutions, which include cancer centers of major universities and teaching hospitals throughout the US and Canada, as well as sites in Europe and Australia. COG is the single largest network of childhood cancer clinical trials in the world.

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC)
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) is a NCI-supported network of 9 institutions, devoted to evaluating new therapies for primary central nervous system tumors of childhood. It conducts phase I and II trials on all types of pediatric brain tumors.

New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy
NANT is a consortium of universities and children's hospitals to test promising new therapies for neuroblastoma funded by NCI. NANT was formed to forge collaborations among laboratories developing novel therapies for high-risk neuroblastoma.

clinicaltrials.gov
This government-sponsored Web site lists all clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including NCI, and some Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmaceutical company trials.

CenterWatch
This site lists over 41,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials, and details about therapies recently approved by the FDA. CenterWatch also contains information on clinical research centers and the clinical trials industry.

Oncolink
This site from the University of Pennsylvania is an informative resource on childhood cancer and includes information on clinical trials.