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Clinical Trial Participation Award Process and 2008 Winners

Nominations from across the country were submitted by National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cooperative Groups, the ASCO Clinical Practice Committee, the NCI Community Clinical Oncology Program, and community-based oncology research networks, including US Oncology, Minnie Pearl Cancer Research Network, UCLA Oncology Research Network, and Hoosier Oncology Group. All nominated practices were invited to submit an application for the award, and the applications were peer-reviewed by a subcommittee of ASCO's Cancer Research Committee. In 2006, a subcommittee of the ASCO Cancer Research Committee was developed to assess the process and criteria used to determine the recipients of this award, and to make recommendations for changes. The chair of this subcommittee was Charles McKay, MD. The other members of this subcommittee were C. Norman Coleman, MD, Robert Comis, MD, Ellen Feigal, MD, Michael Friedman, MD, Dean Gesme, MD, H. Kim Lyerly, MD, and Peter Paul Yu, MD.

Winners of the 2008 Clinical Trial Participation Awards (from left to right): David A. Decker, MD; Joanne L. Blum, MD; John T. Cole, MD; Preston Steen, MD; Stephen S. Grubbs, MD; Jonathan Polikoff, MD; Jeffrey Kirshner, MD; Sreenivasa R. Nattam, MD; John A. Ellerton, MD; and James Lloyd Wade III, MD, FACP.

Application Process and Criteria for 2008
Each of the nominated practices was invited to apply for this award by completing an online application. The online application requested both quantitative and qualitative information, including a description of innovative techniques employed by the practice to increase their overall accrual and accrual of minority populations, how the practice overcomes barriers to research, and methods to ensure and maintain the quality of research. The applications were peer reviewed and scored by members of the subcommittee, and each application was reviewed and scored by at least one subcommittee member who was also a community-based oncology researcher. Applicants with the highest scores were chosen to receive this award in 2008.

The award winners were selected based on the following criteria:

• Quality research program with high-quality audit reports and investigators in good standing
  
• Total patient accrual rates
  
• Accrual of minority and underrepresented populations
  
• Increase in level of accrual from 2005 to 2007
  
• Not a previous award recipient
  

2008 Honorees
This year the ASCO Cancer Foundation, ASCO's philanthropic arm, honored 10 community oncology practices for their efforts to improve care of people with cancer through participation in clinical trials. The Clinical Trial Participation Awards were presented Sunday, June 1, 2008, at American Society of Clinical Oncology's 44th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

The 2008 honorees include Cancer Care Specialists of Central Illinois, Decatur, Illinois; Cancer Consultants of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada; Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology, Inc, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York, East Syracuse, New York; Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, San Diego, California; Medical Oncology-Hematology Consultants, PA, Wilmington, Delaware; MeritCare Roger Marris Cancer Center, Fargo, North Dakota; Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana; Texas Oncology-Baylor Sammons Cancer Center, Dallas, Texas; and William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Upcoming Articles on Award Winners
Between now and the next ASCO Annual Meeting, Journal of Oncology Practice will publish a series of articles focusing on the Clinical Trial Participation Award–winning practices. These articles will feature interviews with members of these groups who will discuss their innovative techniques for conducting clinical research. Previous articles have presented discussions of how award-winning practices conduct outreach programs, address funding issues, identify elements of an effective research team, minimize research delays, identify successful strategies to keep clinical trials moving forward, and select and identify clinical trials for their practice. An understanding of how these model sites conduct clinical research should be useful for other community-based practices that are striving to improve their clinical research programs.

Request for Feedback From ASCO Members
The subcommittee plans to continually evaluate this process, and requests feedback and suggestions from ASCO members. Please direct all comments and suggestions to ASCO's Cancer Research Department at cancerresearch{at}asco.org.

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