Research Base Affiliations

The NCI (National Cancer Institute) supported Clinical Trials Cooperative Group is a large network of health care professionals, from both academic institutions and community-based cancer treatment centers throughout the United States and Canada, that develop and conduct large-scale cancer treatment trials (research studies) as well as smaller, developmental trials. The Cooperative Groups enroll approximately 20,000 new participants per year into cancer treatment trials. They are completely separate organizations with separate leadership and research goals.

The Gulf Coast Minority Based Community Clinical Oncology Program (MB-CCOP) participates in many of these research bases including but not limited to the following: