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Wendy Lawton, SWOG's Communications and Publications Manager, can be reached at 503-348-8675 or ynjgbaj/ng/bufh/qbg/rqh.
About SWOG
SWOG is a global cancer research community of over 12,000 members in 47 states and six foreign countries who design and conduct publicly funded clinical trials.
The group is a proud member of the National Cancer Institute’s National Clinical Trials Network and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program, and is a major part of the cancer research infrastructure in the U.S. and the world. Since its founding in 1956, SWOG has established a rich trove of resources. Its online clinical trial and publications search tool includes more than 1,400 trials and over 4,000 trial publications and presentations. SWOG's biorepository includes over 800,000 blood, tissue, and other biological samples. All of these resources are publicly available in order to advance cancer research worldwide.
SWOG trials have:
Led to the approval of 14 cancer drugs
Changed more than 100 standards of cancer care, and
Saved more than 3 million years of human life
Headquartered at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore., SWOG’s statistics and data management center is based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Cancer Research And Biostatistics in Seattle, Wash. and its operations office is located in San Antonio, Texas. The Hope Foundation, a public charity, supports SWOG’s work.
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