1. Lessons Learned from the Impact of COVID-19 on NCI-sponsored Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials: Moving Toward Participant-centric Study Designs.
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Samimi G, House M, Benante K, Bengtson L, Budd T, Dermody B, DeShong K, Dyer V, Kimler BF, Sahasrabuddhe VV, Siminski S, Ford LG, Vilar E, and Szabo E
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- Delivery of Health Care, Humans, National Cancer Institute (U.S.), Pandemics, Research Design, United States epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiology, Clinical Trials as Topic, Neoplasms prevention & control
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The COVID-19 pandemic overloaded health care systems around the globe and brought travel restrictions and other mandates. These effects critically impacted cancer care and conduct of clinical trials, and required medical and research communities to incorporate changes and novel flexible workflows within clinical trials and regulations to improve efficiency. We report the impact of the pandemic on cancer prevention clinical trials managed by the Division of Cancer Prevention within the NCI, focusing on participant-centric, study staff-centric and regulatory elements. Learning lessons from this challenging period, the cancer prevention community has the opportunity to incorporate many of these necessitated novel approaches to future design of clinical trials, to streamline and improve clinical trial efficiency and impact., (©2022 American Association for Cancer Research.)
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- 2022
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