Project Management in Clinical Trials

Clinical studies today are large business projects, where along with the scientific and practical component, also a great importance has a competent project management. A well-structured clinical trial can answer many of the clinical questions posed to the clinical trial, but it does not guarantee the success of the project, both in financial terms and in terms of project management. In turn, this fact from a theoretically successful project can lead to a practically impossible “failed” clinical study. This scientific work shows the distinctive features of clinical research projects in oncology from projects performed in other areas. The work carried out a thorough analysis of the entire structure of clinical trials in oncology, studied the problems and risks facing the study. The given work proposes recommendations on identification of risks and problems faced in the process of project realization, risk management through the introduction of scientific and practical foundations of project management in various stages of clinical research in oncology.