The CCOP provides patients and physicians in the community with access to the latest clinical research and allows investigators to conduct large-scale cancer preventional studies. Our focus is Cancer Prevention and Control.
Individual investigators remain in charge of their own studies.
Investigators interested in alternative therapies to symptom control would be able to develop concepts and protocols and the Research Base would make the protocols available to the seven CCOPs for data collection. Concepts and protocols submitted for review and implementation must include an intervention. Concepts submitted to the Research Base are reviewed by the Research Base Protocol Committee and sent on to NCI for their review. Upon acceptance by NCI, protocols are sent to CCOPs for implementation.