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The Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) was a U.S. and Canadian clinical trial cooperative group created with the mission of studying childhood cancers. It was formed by the merger of the pediatric divisions of two other cooperative groups, the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and the CALGB .
SWOG was created by the NCI in 1956 as the Southwest Cancer Chemotherapy Study Group (SWCCSG) and was headquartered in Houston, Texas. [2] Its primary purpose was to study leukemia, a cancer of the blood which primarily affects children. Then in 1958, the NCI directed the SWCCSG to include the study of adult cancers, and separate administrative ...
Thompson received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and went on to earn his medical degree in 1977 from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.He received clinical training in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and in medical oncology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at the University of Washington.
In 2000, the four pediatric groups merged to create the Children's Oncology Group. [2] Since then, its researchers have published well over one thousand research manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals. [2] COG has enrolled more children with cancer on clinical trials than any other organization in the world. [citation needed]
The National Wilms Tumor Study Group (NWTS) is a cancer research cooperative group in the United States formed to study a type of kidney tumor that affects children called Wilms' tumor. In 2001, NWTS merged with several other pediatric oncology cooperative groups to create the Children's Oncology Group (COG). However, the NWTS is still active ...
The group changed its name to Cancer and Leukemia Group B in 1976 to reflect its role with solid tumors as well as leukemia. In March 2011, CALGB merged with two other cooperative groups, the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) and North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG), to form the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.
In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family.
The original New York Cancer Hospital [2] built between 1884 and 1886, now housing, at 455 Central Park West and 106th Street in Manhattan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( MSK or MSKCC ) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City .