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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(24):1822-1824; doi:10.1093/jnci/95.24.1822
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Community Clinical Oncology Program Celebrates 20 Years of Trials and a Few Tribulations

Gwen Moulton

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Twenty years after the creation of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP), the underlying collegiality and collaboration of people networked across the country in 61 community programs known as CCOPs and 14 national research bases, have not waned. The program was established in 1983 to provide a mechanism for community physicians at large to be involved in cancer clinical trials, to bring the benefits of clinical research to patients in their own communities.

"The CCOP legacy is that they’ve contributed to the cooperative groups’ ability to start trials, complete trials, and affect the way physicians care for patients and individuals at risk for cancer," said Leslie Ford, M.D., associate director for clinical research in NCI’s Division of Cancer Prevention.

Administrators and investigators celebrated the 20th anniversary of CCOP last month at the annual meeting of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, an NCI-sponsored clinical trials . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Predecessors and Controversies

A Stronger Research Network

Today’s CCOP

Into the Future


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