All patients with a high-grade glioma should be offered the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial or clinical research if appropriate (Field et al. 2013).

Cross-referral between clinical trial centres should be encouraged to facilitate participation.

Culturally diverse patients have significantly lower rates of recruitment, accrual and retention in cancer clinical trials. Enhancing research participation of culturally diverse communities ensures not only wider understanding of genetic heterogeneity to improve glioma outcomes but also equity in access to care (Lwin et al. 2014).

Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-oncology (COGNO) coordinates large-scale multi-centred neuro-oncology trials. For more information visit the COGNO website.

The Cancer Australia website also provides information about trials.