Origins of NCORP
NCORP’s community-based approach builds on the scope and activities of the NCI's previously supported community networks. To preserve and enhance cancer research in the community, the NCORP integrated these two prior networks into one new program:
- The Community Clinical Oncology Programs (CCOP), which included the Minority-Based Clinical Oncology Programs, and the participating CCOP Research Bases), administered by the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, and
- The NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), administered by the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
The NCORP’s ongoing focus is on the design and conduct of cancer prevention, control, and screening/post-treatment surveillance clinical trials, and multi-level Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) studies, including comparative effectiveness research.
The program works to enhance patient and provider access to treatment and imaging trials under the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN), facilitating minority and underserved participation in clinical research, increasing integration of disparities research questions across all study types/settings. Thus integrating primary and specialty care providers' health services and behavioral researchers' expertise with oncologists; accelerating knowledge transfer into clinical practice and healthcare systems and organizations.
The NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) is a national network of investigators, cancer care providers, academic institutions, and other organizations. NCORP conducts multi-site cancer clinical trials and studies in diverse populations in community-based healthcare systems across the United States and Puerto Rico. The NCORP is housed in the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, with collaboration by the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, and NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.
Program Goal
The overall goal of the NCORP Program is to bring cancer clinical trials (cancer control, prevention, screening, treatment, and imaging), as well as Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR), to individuals in their own communities generating a broadly applicable evidence base that contributes to improved patient outcomes and a reduction in cancer disparities.
Community Based Cancer Research
The NCI has been collaborating with community investigators and bringing research to communities for decades. The NCORP Program builds on the NCI’s previous community programs, maintaining the strong history of clinical research accountability, resource sharing and exchange, and partnership building between the NCI, academic institutions, and communities.
Research in the community setting allows access to a larger and more diverse patient population in a variety of "real world" healthcare locations. This can accelerate accrual to clinical trials, enable feasibility testing of promising new interventions, and increase the generalizability of study findings. Engaging community oncologists in collaborative research can also facilitate the uptake of effective, evidence-based practices into routine care.
The NCORP Program brings researchers together with community based physicians to conduct high quality clinical studies for cancer patients and for people at risk of cancer.
The Florida Pediatric NCORP membership currently includes:
- Golisano Children’s Hospital of SW Florida - Ft. Myers
- Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial - Hollywood
- Orlando Health, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children - Orlando
- St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa
- Tampa General Hospital
NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) https://ncorp.cancer.gov
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