About
Protocol & People makes clinical trials understandable for everyone, starting with the basics and assuming nothing.
Most material about clinical trials is written for people who already understand clinical trials. That leaves out almost everybody the research is meant to serve. This project is an attempt to close that gap: a newsletter, an animated series, and a deck of cards, all working from the same principle that the words should be plain and the reader should never have to guess.
Cards on the Table
A deck of 103 questions in six languages, from the first few days after a diagnosis through what the treatments do, the side effects, how you are actually coping, the people around you, and what it means to be offered a trial. One question on each card. Turn it over for the answer.
The artwork carries no text. Every word sits in a separate layer, which is what makes six languages possible from one set of drawings, and what will make the next six possible too.
Who makes it
The cards are written by Dr. Oyepeju Abioye-Akintola and Dr. Meghna Mathews, with clinicians who look after people with cancer every day.
A necessary note
Everything here is educational. It is not medical advice, and it does not replace talking with your own doctor. The cards are built to help you ask better questions in the room, not to answer them in your doctor's place.