Strength in numbers: Cooperative group clinical trials move the needle against pediatric cancer

Running a clinical trial requires enough patient participants to gather robust data so that researchers can draw appropriate conclusions from what they observe. Recruiting enough participants is hard to do for a disease that occurs in limited numbers, where the patients may be scattered in many different locations. To address this problem, the childhood cancer research community came together decades ago to create cooperative groups to enable the study of novel treatments.

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