Clinical oncology involves testing treatments that kill tumors, prevent their growth or stop their spread. The research takes all forms, from local studies to large nationwide drug trials, and deals with tumors anywhere in the body.
Every clinical study is conducted under carefully designed protocols.
BrUOG staffers help faculty prepare and follow those protocols to ensure studies are well-organized. For example, the group collaborates with campus biostatisticians to help researchers design protocols, particularly the end-point question asked by a trial, and on the final analysis of data. We also strive to see that our own scientific questions and answers end up in the trials, and aid in getting patients into the trials and in publication of the data. BrUOG publishes a quarterly newsletter that spotlights its studies. The current newsletter describes trials related to skin cancer and to tumors in the breast, pancreas, prostate, rectum, lungs, lymph nodes, gastric system and head and neck.