Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Second Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, An American Society of Clinical Oncology and Institute of Medicine Workshop, et al.

The National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has played an integral role in cancer research and in establishing the standard of care for cancer patients for more than 50 years. Formerly known as the NCI Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program, the NCTN is comprised of more than 2,100 institutions and 14,000 investigators, who enroll more than 20,000 cancer patients in clinical trials each year across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309287243
• ISBN13: 9780309287241
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 110 Pages