| Date |
Volume |
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| 12/22/2011 |
SWOG Update, December 2011 |
SWOG Update, December 2011
Highlights:
- Spotlight: S0226 combo shows promise
- Study: S0702: Revisions should make accrual easier
- Study: S0812: Vitamin D and breast cancer prevention
- SWOG News: Appelbaum steps down,
phase IIs increased to $5K capitation,
and two new SWOG Development Awards are announced.
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| 10/31/2011 |
SWOG Update, October 2011 |
SWOG Update, October 2011
Highlights:
- Spotlight: SWOG consolidates specimen banks
- Study: S1014: Complementing ADT with abiraterone acetate?
- SWOG News: Dr. Baker says no third term,
Melanoma Cmte changes leaders,
and SWOG welcomes a basic science cancer center.
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| 8/31/2011 |
SWOG Update, August 2011 |
SWOG Update, August 2011
Highlights:
- Spotlight: Fall 2011 meeting plenary links lab scientists with clinical researchers
- Study: S1011: How many nodes to dissect in radical cystectomy?
- Study: S0701: Eradicating H. pylori in Latin America
- SWOG News: Two new SWOG Development Awards granted,
a clinical trials course for new (or not so new) nurses,
and SWOG welcomes a new executive officer.
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| 6/29/2011 |
SWOG Update, June 2011 |
SWOG Update, June 2011
Highlights:
- Study: S1005: AKT inhibitor against gastric and GEJ cancer
- Study: S0833: Total Therapy 3 for myeloma comes to SWOG
- SWOG News: Seven projects to use SELECT/PCPT Biorepository resources,
new travel support for investigators outside hem-onc,
and three new patient advocates come aboard.
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| 4/29/2011 |
SWOG Update, Apr 2011 |
SWOG Update, April 2011
Highlights:
- Spotlight: S1007 RxPONDER trial launched
- Study: S0421: Interim analysis closes early
- Study: S0931: EVEREST: Everolimus in renal cancer
- SWOG News: Spring meeting wrap-up (and fashion show!),
Barlogie passes Myeloma Cmte baton to Orlowski,
and first SWOG Development Award winners.
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| 2/25/2011 |
SWOG Update, Feb 2011 |
SWOG Update, February 2011
Highlights:
- Spotlight: Spring meeting plenary focus is survivorship research
- Study: S0709: NSCLC study eligibility eased
- Study: S0919: Statins with chemo for AML
- Study: S0925: IGF-IR inhibitors with ADT
- SWOG News: The role of a nurse QOL coordinator,
Coltman Fellowships deadline approaches,
and a second chance for unfunded proposals.
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| 12/22/2010 |
SWOG Update, Dec 2010 |
SWOG Update, December 2010
Highlights:
- Spotlight: FDA's ODAC says no to finasteride for chemoprevention
- Study: S0916: "Window study" completed
- SWOG News: SWOG Development Award RFA,
GU Committee seeks transformative proposals,
and a new TM subcommittee chair for Lymphoma.
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| 11/29/2010 |
SWOG Update, November 2010 |
SWOG Update, November 2010
Highlights:
- Spotlight: SWOG, no longer just southwest
- Study: S0933: Newest trial targets Notch receptor in melanoma
- SWOG News: Update on the October meeting,
on-site training piloted,
and SWOG is 13 for 13 at ASH 2010.
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| 9/8/2010 |
SWOG Update September 2010 |
SWOG Update, September 2010
Highlights:
- Spotlight: Fall plenary will address coop group changes
- Study: S0701: H. pylori trial in Latin America reaches goal
- SWOG News: SWOG's Gynecologic Cancer Committee has closed,
a new scientific advisory structure for the Group,
and the Clinical Trials Training Course goes online.
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| 7/30/2010 |
SWOG Update July 2010 |
SWOG Update, July 2010
Highlights:
- Spotlight: Planning to reform the coop group system
- Study: S0600: Bevacizumab and metastatic colorectal cancer
- SWOG News: Changes coming to biospecimen banking at SWOG,
record retention guidelines for sites,
and a look ahead to the fall Nursing Committee Workshop.
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| 6/29/2010 |
SWOG Update June 2010 |
SWOG Update, June 2010
Highlights:
- Spotlight: SWOG looks at its successes and failures
- Study: S0702: 1st dental exam is the only one required
- Study: S0805: Related study supports dasatinib regimen
- SWOG News: Nursing Disease & Disc. Subcomm. making its mark,
specimen kits now available for 9 trials,
and SWOG's grants & contracts mgr. goes on leave.
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| 5/30/2010 |
SWOG Update May 2010 |
SWOG Update, May 2010 Highlights:
- Spotlight: IOM report urges coop group changes
- Spring 2010 Group Meeting update
- Study: S0777: Bortezomib combo for myeloma
- SWOG News: Coltman Fellows announced,
Young Investigators Course RFA issued,
and new resources for QA and audits.
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| 4/30/2010 |
SWOG Update Apr 2010 |
SWOG Update, April 2010 Highlights:
- Spotlight: SWOG treatment grant renewed
- Administrata: Speeding contract and protocol development
- Study: S0941: TKIs with biliary cancers
- SWOG News: SELECT Biorepository,
CRA Committee openings,
and SWOG ASCO abstracts.
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| 3/4/2010 |
SWOG Update Mar 2010 |
SWOG Update, March 2010 Highlights:
- Spotlight: Time to register for the spring meeting in SF
- Chair’s Corner: Clinical benefit
- SWOG News: ONS sets new CT nursing competencies,
a new patient advocate signs on,
and SWOG affiliates shine.
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| 1/29/2010 |
SWOG Update Jan 2010 |
SWOG Update, January 2010
Highlights of this edition of the SWOG Update:
- Spotlight: Latin America Initiative launches
- Chair’s Corner: SWOG foreign policy
- SWOG News: Ops joins Hope Foundation,
CRAs plan for a regulatory session in SF,
and HDOC gets a new co-chair
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| 12/22/2009 |
SWOG Update Dec 2009 |
SWOG Update, December 2009
Highlights of this edition of the SWOG Update:
- Spotlight: SWOG-8814 long-term results
- Chair’s Corner: Value vs. economy
- Study Updates: S0904: New gyn trial to test docetaxel and vandetanib in ovarian cancers
- SWOG News: SWOG's Imaging Network launched,
CRAs doing patient questionnaires need training,
and Marj Godfrey retires
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| 11/17/2009 |
SWOG Update Nov 2009 |
SWOG Update, November 2009
Highlights of this edition of the SWOG Update:
- Spotlight: SWOG's Patient Advocates
- Chair’s Corner: Welcome Dr. Val
- Study Updates: Intravesical chemo for bladder cancer, and
dasatinib for leukemia
- SWOG News: Fall Group Meeting update, recent pubs,
and better TM study tracking
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| 10/9/2009 |
SWOG Update Oct 2009 |
SWOG Update, October 2009
Highlights of this edition of the SWOG Update:
- Spotlight: SWOG's comparative effectiveness research course
- Chair’s Corner: How do we define success in SWOG trials?
- Study Updates: Side effects of a bisphosphonate, and using
a dietary supplement to fight neuropathy
- SWOG News: Stimulus funds reach SWOG, CTSU rolls out OPEN,
and the Ops Office is moving
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| 8/5/2009 |
SWOG Update Aug 2009 |
SWOG Update, August 5, 2009
Highlights of this edition of the new SWOG Update:
- Spotlight: Fall Plenary: How best to fight the war on cancer?
- Chair’s Corner: SWOG's research objectives
- Study Updates: An ongoing breast study, and a new lung study
- SWOG News: SWOG-CTI open for business; SWAT fast-track protocol review
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