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Community-Clinical Oncology Program

The Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) is a network for conducting cancer prevention and treatment clinical trials by community medical practitioners. This network connects academic centers (Research Bases who design and conduct the trials) with community physicians who accrue patients to those trials.

Created in 1983 by NCI, the CCOP network allows patients and physicians to participate in state-of-the-art clinical trials for cancer prevention and treatment while in their local communities. There are 50 CCOPs and 13 MB-CCOPs (Minority-Based CCOP) currently funded in 35 states across the country, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. MB-CCOPs are required to have 40% of their new cancer patients from minority populations.

For more information visit: http://www.cancer.gov/prevention/ccop

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