SWOG’s Newest Dashboards: Roster Insights

We have been steadily developing new data dashboards as tools to help SWOG leaders, members, and administrators more easily access and visualize essential data and key performance indicators.

Our newest set, just rolled out, provide access to information on SWOG members and institutions.  

Developed in close coordination with our membership department, the new Membership Dashboards feature 10 data interfaces designed to answer both frequently asked, and not-so-frequently asked questions. 

As with our other dashboards, the initial views – or pages – in this set offer summarized data on key performance indicators. 

The Investigators view, for example, includes a breakdown of investigator numbers by degree, including a category for advanced practice providers (APPs) that aggregates investigators with several certifications. 

The SWOG Membership view lets me see that NCORP institutions now comprise almost two-thirds of SWOG’s total of 1,354 member sites.

To drill further into the organization of those NCORP sites, I can jump to the NCORP Institutions view, where I can see a list of the 30 NCORPs (representing 830 individual sites) that are SWOG members. 

The Committees view includes an aggregate list of all committee chairs, co-chairs, and vice chairs to the left, with the option at right to drill down into any individual committee. 

This interface can give quick answers to questions that previously would have required a bit more digging. I knew, for example, that breast, GI, and GU were among our largest research committees in terms of membership. Thanks to this dashboard view, I now know GU is the largest, with almost 300 members. I can also see that the membership counts for breast and GI are almost identical.

And although our research committees tend to be our largest, I also note via this interface that two of our research support / modality committees – radiation oncology and surgery – have more than 100 members each.

Of course you can do all this exploring yourself! 

This new set of membership dashboards joins three other sets already in use.

Our Accrual Dashboards provide a range of useful approaches to gaining insight into enrollment trends and to drilling into specific situations. 

The view showing SWOG-Credited Accrual to any network study reveals, for example, that our highest-accruing member site overall has been the University of Rochester, which enrolled almost a thousand patients from 2015 – 2025 (by this particular measure Rochester is way out in front – the rest of the pack is at least 200 patients behind).

The Accrual to SWOG-Coordinated Studies view shows that in recent years our group of NCORP member sites collectively have been the leading enrollers to our studies, out-accruing the LAPS group and the main member group. In fact, more than once over the last decade, NCORP enrollment has exceeded LAPS and main member enrollment (to SWOG-coordinated studies) combined.

Focusing on individual studies, the Study Accrual Trend view gives a useful pair of graphical displays of enrollment – month-by-month and overall progress – for any selected study. It let me see, for example, that SWOG S2308, a phase III study in low tumor-burden follicular lymphoma, is enrolling robustly, regularly exceeding its monthly target of 10 patients enrolled. 

With this in mind, I can now jump to the Study Chairs view in the new Membership Dashboards to quickly learn who is chairing this trial: keep up the great work, Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh (ably backed by co-chairs Drs. Alexey Danilov and Jonathan Friedberg)! 

Our two other sets of dashboards I’ve already explored in some depth in previous Front Line posts (here and here), so I’ll just remind you of how incredibly valuable they can be.

Our Committee Chair Protocol Development Dashboards are excellent tools for tracking protocols in development, the deployment of staff resources supporting that development, and the available capacity that can be devoted to developing a committee’s next trial concept.

Our Publications Dashboards offer multiple routes to explore our bibliography of more than 5,000 SWOG research publications and presentations, going back decades. These dashboards complement our existing web-based interface for searching the publications database.

I’ll close with a reminder that these dashboards include proprietary data. They’re accessible to logged-in members, but please do not share or publish them outside of SWOG.  

That said, please do dive in and explore. You’ll pick up fascinating insights, not to mention finding new, often more efficient routes to answer a wide range of questions about SWOG and your role in it.