Center for Cancer Research Clinical Trials Support

Division Of Basic Sciences - Nci

Investigators

Abstract

The CCR Office of the Clinical Director Clinical Trials Support is a resource for the CCR's translational and clinical cancer (including HIV-associated malignancies) and HIV/AIDS research program, providing investigators and clinical research teams with the infrastructure necessary to study new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to cancer and AIDS patients. The goal is specifically to prolong life, enhance an individual's quality of life, and improve the public health. Specifically, this service provides biostatistical support for trial design and analysis, administrative support for the protocol review and monitoring process, training of clinical research personnel, data management, auditing and monitoring of intramural and multi-institutional trials, an outreach and patient recruitment program to promote patient accrual, team-based research nursing, and informatics for data collection and storage for CCR researchers. By training research professionals, establishing and maintaining standards for clinical research and patient care, and assisting clinical investigators throughout every phase of clinical trial development and implementation, the OCD/CCR acts as a resource for the CCR's translational and clinical research program. The goal is to provide investigators and clinical research teams with the infrastructure necessary to study new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to cancer patients - to prolong life, enhance an individual's quality of life, and improve the public health. In addition, the NCI/CCR Quality Program is a systematic, integrated and ongoing process for the design, measurement, assessment and improvement of organizational performance. The program provides structure for a variety of CCR activities to improve the quality of patient care and research activities throughout the center. NCI/CCR promotes continuing education and training in the pursuit of improving organizational performance. Benchmarks, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and outcome measures are tools that we have used to structure the CCR wide Quality Program.