Resources for Research Bases
Membership Requirements
Prevention Members
In 1998, the NCI established CCOP prevention members as integral components of a CCOP research base that is focused on cancer prevention. The intent was to provide direct support to member institutions that contribute in a significant way to the cancer prevention research agenda of that particular research base. The role of the prevention member varies according to the research base's cancer prevention research focus and the institution's research expertise and/or infrastructure.
Examples of CCOP research base prevention member contributions could include:
- outreach to establish community networks of non-oncology medical specialties that would participate in research base cancer prevention protocols;
- direct funding to member institutions that accrue large numbers of participants to the research base's large-scale prevention trials and/or support disease-specific multidisciplinary prevention working groups that develop the relevant research agendas;
- conducting pilot and/or early phase I/II trials pertinent to chemo-preventive agent development;
- conducting research focused on areas such as the mechanism of action of chemo-preventive agents, correlative studies addressing specific questions that emerge from the conduct of large-scale prevention trials and/or research pertinent to recruitment and retention strategies relevant to prevention trials.
The research base should discuss its cancer prevention research agenda in the application and describe in what capacity the proposed prevention member has or will contribute to further this agenda. A separate budget should be included in the application for the proposed prevention members and should include the cost categories relevant to the proposed activities and scope of work to be carried out.
The page was last updated March 1, 2006
