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Review
. 2016 Sep;33(5):387-91.
doi: 10.1177/1043454215617458. Epub 2015 Nov 26.

Nurse-Led Programs to Facilitate Enrollment to Children's Oncology Group Cancer Control Trials

Maureen Haugen  1 , Katherine Patterson Kelly  2 , Marcia Leonard  3 , Denise Mills  4 , Lillian Sung  4 , Catriona Mowbray  5 , Wendy Landier  6
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Review

Nurse-Led Programs to Facilitate Enrollment to Children's Oncology Group Cancer Control Trials

Maureen Haugen et al. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2016 Sep.

Abstract

The progress made over the past 50 years in disease-directed clinical trials has significantly increased cure rates for children and adolescents with cancer. The Children's Oncology Group (COG) is now conducting more studies that emphasize improving quality of life for young people with cancer. These types of clinical trials are classified as cancer control (CCL) studies by the National Cancer Institute and require different resources and approaches to facilitate adequate accrual and implementation at COG institutions. Several COG institutions that had previously experienced problems with low accruals to CCL trials have successfully implemented local nursing leadership for these types of studies. Successful models of nurses as institutional leaders and "champions" of CCL trials are described.

Keywords: cancer control clinical trials; nurses as leaders; pediatric oncology.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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