Chicago meeting plenary will address the changing cooperative group system
These are interesting times for cancer researchers, especially those who work with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) supported clinical trial cooperative groups.
"The one thing we know," says SWOG Group Chair Laurence Baker, D.O., "is that staying the same is not on option."
The plenary session at this fall's SWOG Group Meeting in Chicago will address a question at the forefront of many minds: What changes are coming to SWOG and the cooperative group system?
Keynote speakers will include Richard Schilsky, M.D., Laurence Baker, D.O., and John Crowley, Ph.D.
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Gynecologic Cancer Committee closes
With the resignation of its chair and a number of additional challenges, SWOG's Gynecologic Cancer Committee has closed.
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Administrata: New advisory structure replacing SAB
Given the rapidity and magnitude of change the cooperative groups face today, SWOG's leadership has moved to reorganize the Group's advisory structure to make it more nimble and responsive.
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Five named SWOG Young Investigators
Multiple myeloma, and lung, breast, and colon cancers are all targets of trial proposals to be developed further in this year's workshop. Plus a proposal in partnership with the Children's Oncology Group.
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SWOG's Clinical Trials Training Course for CRAs moves online
SWOG's course for clinical research associates has been offered every six months at the Group Meetings, but what's a CRA who starts in November or May to do? Now there's no more waiting.
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Investing in Hope
In this era of uncertainty, The Hope Foundation relies on the support of SWOG members to help improve the lives of cancer patients and survivors. [more]
SWOG publications
This issue's list of recent SWOG publications includes two articles on lymphoma studies and two on follow-ups to the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial.
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In spite of the regional signifier in its name, the Southwest Oncology Group has been a national organization for much of its existence. For most of the 1970s, for example, the SWOG Operations Office was based in Kansas City, just a few hundred miles from the geographical center of the contiguous United States.
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NCI Web site highlights results of stimulus funding
More than $1.3 billion in economic stimulus funding has gone to the National Cancer Institute. Here's where you can learn more about what work that funding is doing.
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In late July we held the first meeting of SWOG's new Genomic Medicine Task Force, which includes some of the world's leading minds in cancer genomics, to give us expert oversight on biorepositories, to advise us on specimen collection and analysis, and to work with us to recruit new ideas and investigators to conduct biomarker-driven clinical trials.
