This application is for the participation of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) at the University of Arkansas in the cooperative clinical trials of SWOG. They have participated since 1959. The University of AK Medical Center, ACRC, John McClellan VA Hospital and nine CGOPs affiliates make up the group. Bart Barlogie, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and Deputy Director of the ACRC is Principal Investigator. ACRC investigators are listed on 13 SWOG committees and Dr. Barlogie serves on the SWOG Board of Governors, and Co-Chairs the Myeloma Committee. Arkansas submitted seven protocol concept papers during the last year. During the last funding period 437 patient have been enrolled on SWOG trials and they rank eighth in patient enrollment. New clinical and basic investigators have been recruited to the institution.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Cooperative Clinical Research--Cooperative Agreements (U10)
Project #
2U10CA037981-15
Application #
2449436
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Program Officer
Kaplan, Richard S
Project Start
1984-07-15
Project End
2002-12-31
Budget Start
1998-04-08
Budget End
1998-12-31
Support Year
15
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
City
Little Rock
State
AR
Country
United States
Zip Code
72205
Messing, Edward M; Tangen, Catherine M; Lerner, Seth P et al. (2018) Effect of Intravesical Instillation of Gemcitabine vs Saline Immediately Following Resection of Suspected Low-Grade Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer on Tumor Recurrence: SWOG S0337 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 319:1880-1888
Hussain, Maha; Tangen, Catherine M; Thompson Jr, Ian M et al. (2018) Phase III Intergroup Trial of Adjuvant Androgen Deprivation With or Without Mitoxantrone Plus Prednisone in Patients With High-Risk Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy: SWOG S9921. J Clin Oncol 36:1498-1504
Cheng, Heather H; Plets, Melissa; Li, Hongli et al. (2018) Circulating microRNAs and treatment response in the Phase II SWOG S0925 study for patients with new metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Prostate 78:121-127
Lemieux, Julie; Brundage, Michael D; Parulekar, Wendy R et al. (2018) Quality of Life From Canadian Cancer Trials Group MA.17R: A Randomized Trial of Extending Adjuvant Letrozole to 10 Years. J Clin Oncol 36:563-571
Ailawadhi, Sikander; Jacobus, Susanna; Sexton, Rachael et al. (2018) Disease and outcome disparities in multiple myeloma: exploring the role of race/ethnicity in the Cooperative Group clinical trials. Blood Cancer J 8:67
Samlowski, Wolfram E; Moon, James; Witter, Merle et al. (2017) High frequency of brain metastases after adjuvant therapy for high-risk melanoma. Cancer Med 6:2576-2585
Yao, James C; Guthrie, Katherine A; Moran, Cesar et al. (2017) Phase III Prospective Randomized Comparison Trial of Depot Octreotide Plus Interferon Alfa-2b Versus Depot Octreotide Plus Bevacizumab in Patients With Advanced Carcinoid Tumors: SWOG S0518. J Clin Oncol 35:1695-1703
Moinpour, Carol M; Unger, Joseph M; Ganz, Patricia A et al. (2017) Seven-year follow-up for energy/vitality outcomes in early stage Hodgkin's disease patients treated with subtotal lymphoid irradiation versus chemotherapy plus radiation: SWOG S9133 and its QOL companion study, S9208. J Cancer Surviv 11:32-40
Heinrich, Michael C; Rankin, Cathryn; Blanke, Charles D et al. (2017) Correlation of Long-term Results of Imatinib in Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors With Next-Generation Sequencing Results: Analysis of Phase 3 SWOG Intergroup Trial S0033. JAMA Oncol 3:944-952
Durie, Brian G M; Hoering, Antje; Abidi, Muneer H et al. (2017) Bortezomib with lenalidomide and dexamethasone versus lenalidomide and dexamethasone alone in patients with newly diagnosed myeloma without intent for immediate autologous stem-cell transplant (SWOG S0777): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet 389:519-527

Showing the most recent 10 out of 189 publications