City Of Hope Launches Innovative National Clinical Trials Model To Expand Access To Cancer Treatments

City of Hope®, 1 of nan largest and astir precocious crab investigation and curen organizations successful nan U.S., launched an innovative nationalist objective tests exemplary to grow entree to emerging life-saving crab treatments to much patients crossed nan country. This exemplary simplifies nan opening of caller proceedings locations and streamlines diligent enrollment pinch nan extremity of accelerating nan improvement of caller crab treatments and improving objective care.

As nan first world halfway pinch a nationalist objective proceedings web and a ample and divers diligent organization served done a nationalist web of precocious crab centers, City of Hope will connection unprecedented entree to lifesaving care, caller therapies, and objective decision-making expertise. Through nan model, City of Hope operates a azygous centralized hub which has aggregate investigation locations, enabling nan statement to unfastened a objective proceedings crossed aggregate states simultaneously pinch this centralized support. The operational ratio of this nationalist exemplary reduces diligent enrollment times, increases enrollment numbers and ensures patients crossed a wide geographic footprint person entree to an extended portfolio of leading-edge curen options.

Our North Star is to connection each our patients, sloppy of wherever they live, nan opportunity to participate successful objective trials, which supply them pinch promising caller curen options agelong earlier they go nan modular of care. Whether a proceedings is sponsored by nan NIH, by a pharmaceutical institution aliases is studying an investigational medicine developed correct present astatine City of Hope, nan singular usability of our caller nationalist exemplary is nan expertise for a azygous institution to enroll patients successful communities who don't typically person entree to these types of leading-edge trials. By building a azygous yet scalable model, we tin now present connected our imagination to create entree and attraction person to those surviving pinch cancer." 

Edward S. Kim, M.D., M.B.A., FACP, FASCO, vice physician-in-chief, City of Hope National Medical Center and strategy director, Clinical Trials

Typically, objective proceedings models look important limitations, including wherever and erstwhile a objective proceedings tin open, nan timely enrollment of patients, disposable resources and on-site expertise to support nan trial. City of Hope's caller exemplary was built to support a distributed, digitally connected web of objective proceedings sites. The unsocial building of nan exemplary intends it tin accommodate accelerated description crossed nan U.S. without needing to overhaul halfway systems. 

Another cardinal differentiator of nan exemplary - it allows investigators to bring groundbreaking subject to each City of Hope location, boosting nan organization's ngo to make dream a reality for anyone touched by crab aliases diabetes. 

Building connected a legacy

For complete 100 years, City of Hope has served Los Angeles communities. Today, pinch 37 locations crossed nan U.S., including premier crab centers successful Orange County, Phoenix, Chicago and Atlanta, millions of Americans of divers backgrounds are now wrong 90 minutes of a City of Hope site. As a bequest statement known for its powerhouse investigation and objective attraction - nan expanded footprint called for a caller attack to its objective proceedings framework. 

"Currently, nan spread betwixt those who tin entree therapeutic breakthroughs and those who can't is widening and successful galore cases nan rumor is simply owed to nan zip codification they reside in. Through innovation, City of Hope is removing barriers and bridging geographic divides, bringing our renowned objective excellence person to each patients," said Marcel van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D., president, City of Hope Los Angeles and City of Hope National Medical Center and nan Deana and Steve Campbell Chief Physician Executive Distinguished Chair. "This unsocial attack to objective research, on pinch supportive attraction programs and personalized medicine, ensures each City of Hope diligent tin entree nan latest crab advances."

Early success

In nan first fewer months since launch, 9 objective tests crossed coagulated tumors and humor cancers are moving astatine 12 City of Hope sites. With centralized support, diligent enrollment is up of expectations and nan studies are expected to scope their targets. 

Developing caller devices for tomorrow's needs 

To present a scalable and unified system, regulatory, operational and integer frameworks were developed to accommodate caller proceedings sites anyplace successful nan world. City of Hope experts are besides processing AI and predictive devices to incorporated into nan portal to thief find wherever definite patients reside and place nan champion locations for each trial.

"City of Hope has built an all-in-one exemplary that tin not only support up pinch nan gait of our technological investigation and objective innovations, but besides support our investigators and collaborators, and yet really we present attraction and astir importantly, hope, to our patients, sloppy of wherever they are," Dr. Kim said.

To study much astir nan objective tests exemplary contact: [email protected]. For specifications connected participating successful a objective proceedings call: 855-970-2654.