Should every patient in Delaware have the right to join a clinical trial for the most promising treatments?

Help bring pragmatic trials, shared results, and more treatment options to patients in Delaware.

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Should patients have the right to join a for a promising treatment through their physician?

Pragmatic trials compare treatments during routine care. Participation remains voluntary and requires informed consent and appropriate safety oversight.

What Delaware has today

Legal here since 2018

Right to Try has been federal law in Delaware since 2018. It lets some patients ask manufacturers for experimental treatments—but it built no clinics, pays no providers, and publishes no results.

Federal Right to Try Act

93,000 neighbors

About 93,000 of Delaware's 1.1 million people live with a rare disease—and 95% of the roughly 7,000 rare diseases have no approved treatment to try.

GAO rare disease report

The missing half

Montana licensed experimental treatment centers with SB 535. Right to Trial adds the evidence half—pragmatic trials, provider payment, and published results. Delaware can adopt both at once.

Read the model act

Patient estimate: Delaware's share of the roughly 30 million Americans with a rare disease (GAO 2025), using Census 2025 population estimates.

Who is still waiting in Delaware

Today's medicine manages these conditions. It cures none of them.

Diabetes~120,000 people
Chronic kidney disease~110,000 people
Rare diseases~93,000 people
COPD~36,000 people
Alzheimer's disease~23,000 people

Estimates: national counts scaled to Delaware's share of the US population (Census 2025). Each condition links to its national source.

Delaware Right to Trial