Last Updated: 04/06/07

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Community Clinical Oncology Program

http://www.cancer.gov/prevention/ccop

The Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP), administered by the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, is a comprehensive clinical trial mechanism for disseminating the latest cancer prevention and treatment research findings to the community level. A third of all patients accrued to all NCI treatment trials and prevention trials are enrolled at CCOP sites.

Created in 1983, the program works in tandem with CTEP to enable patients and physicians to participate in clinical trials at 61 major research centers in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

In 2005, 50 CCOPs and 13 minority-based CCOPs across the country received funding for participation in NCI-approved trials. Altogether, the program comprises 3645 participating physicians and 415 participating hospitals working on more than 300 active treatment trials and more than 70 active prevention and control trials.