Clinical trials are given weight to understand the cancers better. Turkey Ministry of Health and Harvard Medical School collaborated for Onkogen Project. This Project has been created with the aim of making genetic and molecular applications in the world standards, identifying of new targets and developping alternatives intended for identified targets.

Primarily the training activities and establishment of a Cancer Genetic Center in İstanbul are aimed.

Undersecretary of Ministry of Health Professor Eyüp Gümüş M.D. told that they do specific clinical trial protocol for Turkey at removing of some undiscovered mutations in cancer. “We are also planning to establish a genetic research center in Istanbul and Ankara. We will enter into the unexplored areas of cancer with clinical trials. We will put forward targeted therapy.”he said.