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Curing Cancer Trials: Understanding the co-ops

Primer on cancer trial cooperative group networks

February 28, 2011 8:00 AM UTC

Since its inception in the 1950s, the cooperative oncology group system has been instrumental in establishing standards for cancer treatment and clinical research.

NCI's Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program is the nation's largest publicly funded clinical trials network, consisting of nine groups focused on adult cancers, and one focused on pediatric cancers...