CANCER Stemming a Crisis in Cancer Clinical Trials Podcast: April 26, 2010The Burrill Report (April 26, 2010): Stemming a Crisis in Cancer Clinical Trials (.MP3,14.51 Mb) The National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program involves more than 3,100 institutions and 14,000 investigators who enroll more than 25,000 patients in clinical trials each year. But a new report from the Institute of Medicine finds the program is at a critical juncture as it has grown into a complex, cumbersome, and inefficient system. We spoke to John Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and chair of the Institute of Medicine committee that wrote the report. We discussed the crisis in cancer clinical trials, the challenges the group faces, and what needs to be done to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into therapies that benefit patients with cancer. [Please login to post comments]![]()
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