Stormont-Vail Recognized as Top Accruing SWOG Affiliate

Stormont-Vail HealthCare has been recognized as the Southwest Oncology Group affiliate institution with the highest patient accrual numbers from the previous year. Stormont-Vail is being recognized for the achievement for the second year in a row. This  recognition program started last year.

SWOG is one of the largest National Cancer Institute-supported cancer clinical trials cooperative groups. Its primary mission is to improve the practice of medicine in preventing, detecting and treating cancer.

Stormont-Vail placed 32 patients on SWOG trials in 2010. Stormont-Vail will receive two paid trips to SWOG’s semi-annual group meeting for investigators.

The Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center, which is part of the Stormont-Vail network of primary care and specialty clinics, has been involved in clinical research trials for more than 30 years. The cancer center has developed a progressive clinical research program for patients with a diagnosis of cancer. It typically has 60 to 70 open research trials available to patients and provides screening to see if they match protocols and are interested in participating.

Clinical research trials are health-related research studies done with people who follow a specific protocol to measure the outcome of a treatment or other invention. Results of studies can become new standards for treatment and lay the groundwork for the next study.