Post by CTIN (Clinical Trials Information Network)

Roughly once every 11 minutes, around the clock, someone in Poland goes looking for a clinical trial. On their own. Nobody recruited them, nobody sent a flyer. Between January and May 2026, patients searched clinical trial listings on our platforms 20,084 times. That is more than 4,000 people every month, quietly trying to find a study that might help them or someone they love. Let that sink in. Across the industry the story is always "patients are so hard to find." Meanwhile thousands of them are actively raising their hand, every single month, before anyone reaches out. Here is what they were looking for. Oncology dominates: 7,717 searches, almost four in every ten. Then neurology and psychiatry. Then endocrinology and metabolism, the obesity and diabetes wave, patient-led, not just a pipeline on a slide. The top three areas alone carry two thirds of all demand. This is the half of the picture the industry almost never sees, because it lives on the patient side, not the trial side. The willingness is already there. The searches are already happening. The only real question is whether the trials are ready to meet the people who are already looking for them. 20,084 times in five months, in one country. Now imagine that number across Europe. So here is the one to sit with: if this many patients are already searching for trials, why do we still treat finding them as the hard part? 🌍 We are CTIN → Clinical Trials Information Network 💡 We bridge Europe's clinical research ecosystem 🔍 Follow us for data-driven clinical research insights 🤝 Share if you support more inclusive research across Europe #ClinicalTrials #PatientRecruitment #ClinicalResearch #Poland #PatientVoice