Erschienen in:
01.10.2019 | Pediatric oncologic imaging
The Children’s Oncology Group: an opportunity for pediatric radiologists
verfasst von:
Ethan A. Smith
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 11/2019
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Excerpt
The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is a clinical-trials-based organization focused on childhood and adolescent cancer research. The COG, supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is the largest organization in the world devoted exclusively to pediatric cancer research and has over 200 member institutions, primarily in North America but also in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand [
1]. At any given time, the COG has multiple active, ongoing clinical trials. In the United States, the extent of the COG’s reach is enormous. Each year, greater than 90% of all newly diagnosed pediatric cancer patients in the United States are cared for at COG member institutions [
1]. …