I really feel strongly that access to clinical trials is a right and through
the NCORP we can provide that. NCORP the NCI community oncology research
program. Prevention, screening, symptom management, survivorship, treatment and
cancer care delivery research. Community cancer research is the future because we
can't have them all go to large cities to go to comprehensive cancer centers we
have to reach out to them where they exist. Cancer research really benefits
from having patients from underserved communities participate.
Doesn't matter what language you speak, we want you to have access to the very
best. We realize that if we had the opportunity to bring the clinical trials
right to our patients in our own community, with their family, their
friends, their own environment that would be much better much more comfortable for
the patients. NCORP is a network that conducts clinical trials in the
communities where most patients live and receive their care with over 9,000
doctors, nurses, and research staff. From 2014 to 2018 approximately 30,000
patients have been enrolled in NCI clinical trials through the NCORP sites
The vast majority of consumers of cancer care are not in academic health care
systems it's actually on the street in the rural regions of the United States
in the poor communities, and what we really need to do is understand how the
various ideas the drugs the treatments how they truly work for the person
living with the burden of cancer. In our communities, especially in many of our
minority communities the access to cutting-edge clinical research whether
it's treatment, whether it's symptom management, survivorship is not available
other than through participation in studies. One of the things that and you
always worry about with clinical trials is whether or not you're getting a good
sample representation the entire population and whether or not
those results really apply when you go see the next patient. About 25% of cancer
clinical trial participants from all NCORP sites are minorities. The NCORP
encompasses 1,000 sites across the United States including physician
practices, public hospitals, academic medical centers, and local organizations
NCORP brings cancer research across the country. I'm the principal investigator
of the Puerto Rico NCORP. The entire South Texas area and Central Texas
Louisiana mid-south minority underserved NCROP. At the the foothills of the Blue
Ridge. Into New York City, New Jersey. Northern Wisconsin down to northern
Illinois. St. Paul Minnesota. We are a multi-state NCORP, Michigan
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Hawaii, most of the west coast, Colorado
NCORP serves people from diverse settings across the nation giving hometown access
to the latest cancer research and not just in the area of cancer treatment.
NCORP is from diagnosis to treatment down to survivorship care. It could also
include cancer control cancer prevention and a cancer care delivery research.
We are in a rapid age of discovery especially on cancer care delivery from
2014 to 2018 over 100 clinicians and 4,500 patients have been enrolled by
NCORP sites to cancer care delivery research studies. The reason we do
clinical trials is because the research of today are the standards of tomorrow.
Because of the advances that have occurred through the National Cancer
Institute and through the NCORP consortium these patients are living
longer. They feel safe, They feel comfortable and they have hope. That is
an extraordinary thing that NCORP gives our patients.
Making it easier for people to enroll in clinical trials no matter who they are, or where
they live, helps improve cancer care for everyone
for more information about the NCI community oncology research program or
to look for an NCORP site near you go to NCORP.cancer.gov
I'm Dr. Philip Stella I'm the principal investigator of the Michigan Research Consortium
I'm Mike Thompson I'm the co-principal investigator of the
Aurora NCORP. My name is Anne-Marie Langevin
I'm the PI for the South Texas pediatric minority underserved NCORP.
I'm Vincent Vinciguerra principal investigator for the northwell health
NCORP program. My name is Ray Osarogiagbon, I'm the principal investigator for
the Baptist Memorial HealthCare mid-south NCORP minority underserved
consortium. I am August Ochoa I'm the principal investigator for the Gulf
South NCORP. My name is Marie Suga and I'm a principal investigator of the
Kaiser Permanente NCORP. My name is Luis Baez, I'm the principal
investigator of the Puerto Rico NCORP. My name is Daniel Anderson I am a
principal investigator with the Metro Minnesota NCORP. Dr. Jeff Giguere I'm
the principal investigator for the NCORP of the Carolinas
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