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Program Official
Principal Investigator
William J Irvin
Awardee Organization

Southeast Clinical Oncol Res Consortium
United States

Fiscal Year
2025
Activity Code
UG1
Early Stage Investigator Grants (ESI)
Not Applicable
Project End Date

NCI Community Oncology Research Program 2025 Extension Request

The Southeast Clinical Oncology Research Consortium (SCOR) is a unique organization comprised of 21 community members from significant representative areas under the leadership of three experienced Principal Investigators (PIs), a Leadership Council, and the SCOR Operations Center (SOC). The members comprise small community hospitals, hospital systems, and private practices in a six-state geographical area (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia). The primary goal of this application is to bring NCI clinical trials and Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) to the catchment area. A second goal is to facilitate the use of effective, evidence-based practices to improve the quality of care, health outcomes, and reduce cancer in significant representative populations. There are currently 230 investigators and 160 clinical research staff across 93 treatment performance sites engaged in National Cancer Institute (NCI) research. Each community has a Community Responsible Investigator to oversee research and to ensure human subjects protection. SCOR has a Young Investigator Mentoring Program designed to increase participation of the next generation of NCI investigators in cancer clinical research. Each community also has a research coordinator who is responsible for clinical operations. The SCOR catchment area includes over 16 million people within significant representative populations. The SOC in Winston-Salem, NC provides extensive expertise, regulatory assistance, training, monitoring, mentoring, education, and coordination to facilitate member community’s ability to provide clinical trials to their significant representative patient population. SOC staff conducts at least yearly site visits to each community member to review their research program and recruitment strategies, to ensure compliance and quality data submission, and to assist with audit preparation. This infrastructure allows understaffed member communities to conduct NCI clinical research. The efficient, centralized SOC and experienced PI leadership will facilitate accomplishment of the goals of this application.

Publications

  • Kumar SK, Jacobus SJ, Cohen AD, Weiss M, Callander N, Singh AK, Parker TL, Menter A, Yang X, Parsons B, Kumar P, Kapoor P, Rosenberg A, Zonder JA, Faber E Jr, Lonial S, Anderson KC, Richardson PG, Orlowski RZ, Wagner LI, Rajkumar SV. Carfilzomib or bortezomib in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma without intention for immediate autologous stem-cell transplantation (ENDURANCE): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled trial. The Lancet. Oncology. 2020 Oct;21(10):1317-1330. Epub 2020 Aug 28. PMID: 32866432
  • Kircher S, Duan F, An N, Gareen IF, Sicks JD, Sadigh G, Suga JM, Kehn H, Mehan PT, Bajaj R, Hanson DS, Dalia SM, Acoba JD, Yasar DG, Park ER, Wagner LI, Carlos RC. Patient-Reported Financial Burden of Treatment for Colon or Rectal Cancer. JAMA network open. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2350844. PMID: 38194233
  • Li M, Mulkey F, Jiang C, O'Neil BH, Schneider BP, Shen F, Friedman PN, Momozawa Y, Kubo M, Niedzwiecki D, Hochster HS, Lenz HJ, Atkins JN, Rugo HS, Halabi S, Kelly WK, McLeod HL, Innocenti F, Ratain MJ, Venook AP, Owzar K, Kroetz DL. Identification of a Genomic Region between SLC29A1 and HSP90AB1 Associated with Risk of Bevacizumab-Induced Hypertension: CALGB 80405 (Alliance). Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2018 Oct 1;24(19):4734-4744. Epub 2018 Jun 5. PMID: 29871907
  • Cathcart-Rake E, Novotny P, Leon-Ferre R, Le-Rademacher J, Storrick EM, Adjei AA, Terstriep S, Glaser R, Giuliano A, Mitchell WR, Page S, Austin C, Deming RL, Ferreira MA, Lafky JM, Birrell SN, Loprinzi CL. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of testosterone for treatment of postmenopausal women with aromatase inhibitor-induced arthralgias: Alliance study A221102. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2021 Jan;29(1):387-396. Epub 2020 May 6. PMID: 32372176
  • Chakravarthy AB, Zhao F, Meropol NJ, Flynn PJ, Wagner LI, Sloan J, Diasio RB, Mitchell EP, Catalano P, Giantonio BJ, Catalano RB, Haller DG, Awan RA, Mulcahy MF, O'Brien TE, Santala R, Cripps C, Weis JR, Atkins JN, Leichman CG, Petrelli NJ, Sinicrope FA, Brierley JD, Tepper JE, O'Dwyer PJ, Sigurdson ER, Hamilton SR, Cella D, Benson AB 3rd. Intergroup Randomized Phase III Study of Postoperative Oxaliplatin, 5-Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin Versus Oxaliplatin, 5-Fluorouracil, Leucovorin, and Bevacizumab for Patients with Stage II or III Rectal Cancer Receiving Preoperative Chemoradiation: A Trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Research Group (E5204). The oncologist. 2020 May;25(5):e798-e807. Epub 2019 Dec 18. PMID: 31852811
  • McLouth LE, Zheng Y, Smith S, Hodi FS, Rao UN, Cohen GI, Amatruda TT, Dakhil SR, Curti BD, Nakhoul I, Chandana SR, Bane CL, Marinier DE, Lee SJ, Sondak VK, Kirkwood JM, Tarhini AA, Wagner LI. Patient-reported tolerability of adjuvant ipilimumab (3 or 10 mg/kg) versus high-dose interferon alfa-2b for resected high-risk stage III-IV melanoma in phase III trial E1609. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2023 Jan;32(1):183-196. Epub 2022 Aug 27. PMID: 36029412
  • Delahanty LM, Wadden TA, Goodwin PJ, Alfano CM, Thomson CA, Irwin ML, Neuhouser ML, Crane TE, Frank E, Spears PA, Gillis BP, Hershman DL, Paskett ED, Hopkins J, Bernstein V, Stearns V, White J, Hudis C, Winer EP, A Carey L, Partridge AH, Ligibel JA. The Breast Cancer Weight Loss trial (Alliance A011401): A description and evidence for the lifestyle intervention. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2022 Jan;30(1):28-38. PMID: 34932888
  • Sadigh G, Duan F, An N, Gareen ID, Sicks J, Suga JM, Kehn H, Mehan PT, Bajaj R, Hanson DS, Dalia SM, Acoba JD, Yasar DG, Taylor MA, Park E, Wagner LI, Kircher SM, Carlos RC. Financial Hardship Among Patients With Early-Stage Colorectal Cancer. JAMA network open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2431967. PMID: 39287948