Multi-Center Phase III Clinical Trials and NCI Cooperative Groups:

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Margie Patlak, Sharyl Nass, and Christine Micheel, Rapporteurs, Institute of Medicine
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The NCI-sponsored cooperative groups have made important contributions to improving treatment for many types of cancer, including breast, ovarian, colorectal, and childhood cancers. Cooperative group research has been instrumental in establishing innovative treatments that improve outcomes and quality of life. ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Introduction	1-4	(skim)
Session 1A: Organization of the NCI Clinical Trials System	5-26	(skim)
Session 1B: Lessons from Non-Cooperative Group Multi-Center Clinical Trials	27-40	(skim)
Session 2: Barriers to Patient Recruitment and Physician Participation	41-64	(skim)
Session 3: Data Collection Standards and Monitoring	65-74	(skim)
Session 4: Costs of Cooperative Group Clinical Trials	75-90	(skim)
Summary and Wrap-Up	91-96	(skim)
References	97-102	(skim)
Abbreviations and Acronyms	103-104	(skim)
Glossary	105-110	(skim)
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda	111-116	(skim)
Appendix B: Workshop Speakers	117-118	(skim)
Appendix C: Letter from John Niederhuber, Director of the National Cancer Institute, to Members of the National Cancer Policy Forum	119-122	(skim)

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To address this problem, the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF) convened a workshop titled "Multi-Center Phase III Clinical Trials and NCI Cooperative Groups" in Washington, DC, on July 1-2, 2008. The purpose of the workshop was to outline the challenges that the public clinical cancer research enterprise faces, and to identify possible solutions to these challenges.

Multi-Center Phase III Clinical Trials and NCI Cooperative Groups:

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