The North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) is a regional group composed predominently of community clinics. It serves the needs of the cancer patients within its region by providing access to new and hopeful clinical research treatment approaches. It serves the needs of the National Cancer Program by producing high quality research that will be most relevant to community practice setting where the overwhelming majority of cancer patients are treated.
The specific aims of the NCCTG over the proposed grant period are the following: 1. To conduct meaningful and scientifically sound clinical cancer research protocols. 2. To set new standards of high quality in the conduct of clinical research trials and in this manner to optimize the validity of results. 3. To foster true multidisciplinary interaction in the planning, execution, and interpretation of clinical cancer research programs. This interaction will involve the medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists, pathologists, statisticians, as well as other pertinent medical and surgical subspecialties. 4. To evaluate the applicability of new cancer treatment approaches at the community level where most cancer patients in this country are managed. 5. To develop the most productive, complimentary and noncompetitive interrelationships between community clinics, comprehensive cancer center, and national cooperative groups. 6. To expand our research horizons beyond definitive care of cancer itself by exploring methods of evaluating symptomatic and supportive care and meeting human needs within the community setting.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Cooperative Clinical Research--Cooperative Agreements (U10)
Project #
5U10CA025224-08
Application #
3556737
Study Section
Cancer Regional Studies Review Committee (CRS)
Project Start
1982-01-01
Project End
1988-12-31
Budget Start
1987-01-01
Budget End
1987-12-31
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
1987
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Rochester
State
MN
Country
United States
Zip Code
55905
Chumsri, Saranya; Sperinde, Jeff; Liu, Heshan et al. (2018) High p95HER2/HER2 Ratio Associated With Poor Outcome in Trastuzumab-Treated HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer NCCTG N0337 and NCCTG 98-32-52 (Alliance). Clin Cancer Res 24:3053-3058
Barton, Debra L; Sloan, Jeff A; Shuster, Lynne T et al. (2018) Evaluating the efficacy of vaginal dehydroepiandosterone for vaginal symptoms in postmenopausal cancer survivors: NCCTG N10C1 (Alliance). Support Care Cancer 26:643-650
McCleary, Nadine J; Hubbard, Joleen; Mahoney, Michelle R et al. (2018) Challenges of conducting a prospective clinical trial for older patients: Lessons learned from NCCTG N0949 (alliance). J Geriatr Oncol 9:24-31
Feliciano, Josephine L; Le-Rademacher, Jennifer G; Gajra, Ajeet et al. (2018) Do older patients with non-small cell lung cancer also benefit from first-line platinum-based doublet chemotherapy? Observations from a pooled analysis of 730 prospectively-treated patients (Alliance Study A151622). J Geriatr Oncol 9:501-506
Schiff, David; Jaeckle, Kurt A; Anderson, S Keith et al. (2018) Phase 1/2 trial of temsirolimus and sorafenib in the treatment of patients with recurrent glioblastoma: North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study/Alliance N0572. Cancer 124:1455-1463
McWilliams, Robert R; Allred, Jacob B; Slostad, Jessica A et al. (2018) NCCTG N0879 (Alliance): A randomized phase 2 cooperative group trial of carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab?±?everolimus for metastatic melanoma. Cancer 124:537-545
Reinholz, Monica M; Chen, Beiyun; Dueck, Amylou C et al. (2017) IGF1R Protein Expression Is Not Associated with Differential Benefit to Concurrent Trastuzumab in Early-Stage HER2+ Breast Cancer from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (Alliance) Adjuvant Trastuzumab Trial N9831. Clin Cancer Res 23:4203-4211
Bhatia, Aarti K; Lee, Ju-Whei; Pinto, Harlan A et al. (2017) Double-blind, randomized phase 3 trial of low-dose 13-cis retinoic acid in the prevention of second primaries in head and neck cancer: Long-term follow-up of a trial of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (C0590). Cancer 123:4653-4662
Zhang, Qiang; Freidlin, Boris; Korn, Edward L et al. (2017) Comparison of futility monitoring guidelines using completed phase III oncology trials. Clin Trials 14:48-58
Liu, Xiaonan; Li, Jing; Schild, Steven E et al. (2017) Statins and Metformin Use Is Associated with Lower PSA Levels in Prostate Cancer Patients Presenting for Radiation Therapy. J Cancer Ther 8:73-85

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