{"slug":"cooperative-group","tag":"cooperative-group","variants":["cooperative-group"],"description":"People who lead or represent a cooperative trials group.","count":74,"kinds":{"person":17,"company":57},"related":[{"slug":"paediatric","tag":"paediatric","shared":6},{"slug":"cervical","tag":"cervical","shared":3},{"slug":"leadership","tag":"leadership","shared":3},{"slug":"ovarian","tag":"ovarian","shared":3},{"slug":"all","tag":"all","shared":2},{"slug":"clinician-scientist","tag":"clinician-scientist","shared":2},{"slug":"lymphoma","tag":"lymphoma","shared":2},{"slug":"adc","tag":"adc","shared":1},{"slug":"aml","tag":"aml","shared":1},{"slug":"australia","tag":"australia","shared":1},{"slug":"chemotherapy","tag":"chemotherapy","shared":1},{"slug":"china","tag":"china","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"christiane-pott","kind":"person","name":"Christiane Pott","route":"/people/christiane-pott/","tldr":"Kiel professor of medicine who serves as President of the German Lymphoma Alliance, the umbrella body for German lymphoma study groups, alongside co-president Georg Lenz."},{"id":"sirpa-leppa","kind":"person","name":"Sirpa Leppä","route":"/people/sirpa-leppa/","tldr":"Helsinki oncologist who chairs the Nordic Lymphoma Group, the cooperative network that runs lymphoma trials and guidelines across the Nordic countries."},{"id":"sebastien-armanet","kind":"person","name":"Sébastien Armanet","route":"/people/sebastien-armanet/","tldr":"Director General who runs the operational team of ARCAGY-GINECO, the French non-profit academic research group for gynaecological and metastatic breast cancers."},{"id":"aimery-de-gramont","kind":"person","name":"Aimery de Gramont","route":"/people/aimery-de-gramont/","tldr":"Invented the FOLFOX regimen that anchors colorectal chemotherapy and founded the GERCOR and ARCAD trial groups."},{"id":"andreas-du-bois","kind":"person","name":"Andreas du Bois","route":"/people/andreas-du-bois/","tldr":"Surgeon who chairs the German AGO group and led DESKTOP III, proving secondary surgery can extend survival in selected relapsed ovarian cancer."},{"id":"ignace-vergote","kind":"person","name":"Ignace Vergote","route":"/people/ignace-vergote/","tldr":"Led the EORTC trial that made neoadjuvant chemotherapy acceptable in ovarian cancer and innovaTV 301, the first ADC survival win in cervical cancer."},{"id":"bradley-monk","kind":"person","name":"Bradley J. Monk","route":"/people/bradley-monk/","tldr":"Gynaecologic oncologist who co-led KEYNOTE-826, innovaTV 301 and KEYNOTE-A18, the trials that rebuilt cervical cancer treatment."},{"id":"linda-mileshkin","kind":"person","name":"Linda Mileshkin","route":"/people/linda-mileshkin/","tldr":"Led OUTBACK, which showed adding chemotherapy after chemoradiation does not help cervical cancer, a key negative result."},{"id":"stefan-bielack","kind":"person","name":"Stefan S. Bielack","route":"/people/stefan-bielack/","tldr":"Leads the COSS group and co-led EURAMOS-1, the largest osteosarcoma trial ever run."},{"id":"ruth-ladenstein","kind":"person","name":"Ruth Ladenstein","route":"/people/ruth-ladenstein/","tldr":"Chaired the SIOPEN HR-NBL1 trial, the largest neuroblastoma trial ever, which set European standards for high-risk disease."},{"id":"stephen-hunger","kind":"person","name":"Stephen P. Hunger","route":"/people/stephen-hunger/","tldr":"Chaired the COG leukaemia committee through the era that pushed childhood ALL cure rates above 90%."},{"id":"jeffrey-dome","kind":"person","name":"Jeffrey S. Dome","route":"/people/jeffrey-dome/","tldr":"Led the COG renal tumour committee that used biology to tailor Wilms tumour treatment."},{"id":"richard-stone","kind":"person","name":"Richard M. Stone","route":"/people/richard-stone/","tldr":"Led RATIFY, the trial that made midostaurin the first targeted therapy added to induction chemotherapy for AML."},{"id":"nicola-gokbuget","kind":"person","name":"Nicola Gökbuget","route":"/people/nicola-gokbuget/","tldr":"Leads the German GMALL group and showed blinatumomab clears residual leukaemia in adults with ALL."},{"id":"martin-dreyling","kind":"person","name":"Martin Dreyling","route":"/people/martin-dreyling/","tldr":"Chairs the European MCL Network and led TRIANGLE, which showed ibrutinib can replace transplant in younger mantle cell lymphoma patients."},{"id":"kara-kelly","kind":"person","name":"Kara M. Kelly","route":"/people/kara-kelly/","tldr":"Leads the COG Hodgkin lymphoma committee and the trials bringing brentuximab and nivolumab to children with the disease."},{"id":"rolf-stahel","kind":"person","name":"Rolf A. Stahel","route":"/people/rolf-stahel/","tldr":"Founded the European Thoracic Oncology Platform and leads the merged ETOP IBCSG academic trials foundation."},{"id":"gortec","kind":"company","name":"GORTEC","route":"/companies/gortec/","tldr":"GORTEC is the French head and neck radiotherapy and oncology group, an association founded in 1999 that runs the academic trials behind much of the standard of care in head and neck cancer, including TPExtreme and NIVOPOSTOP in OnCo."},{"id":"german-cll-study-group","kind":"company","name":"German CLL Study Group","route":"/companies/german-cll-study-group/","tldr":"The German CLL Study Group, founded in 1996 at the University of Cologne, runs the numbered CLL trials that set first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, including CLL12, CLL13 (GAIA) and CLL14 in OnCo."},{"id":"french-sarcoma-group","kind":"company","name":"French Sarcoma Group","route":"/companies/french-sarcoma-group/","tldr":"The French Sarcoma Group is the national cooperative group for soft tissue and bone sarcoma trials in France; 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in OnCo it leads ANCHOR, the trial showing that treating anal precancer prevents anal cancer."},{"id":"ocog","kind":"company","name":"Ontario Clinical Oncology Group","route":"/companies/ocog/","tldr":"The Ontario Clinical Oncology Group is a Canadian academic trials group based at the Juravinski Hospital in Hamilton that designs and runs investigator-led cancer trials; in OnCo it leads LUMINA, the radiotherapy-omission study in low-risk luminal A breast cancer."},{"id":"kgog","kind":"company","name":"Korean Gynecologic Oncology Group","route":"/companies/kgog/","tldr":"The Korean Gynecologic Oncology Group is the Korean incorporated association that runs gynaecological cancer trials; in OnCo it leads a phase 2 study of progestin with a levonorgestrel intrauterine system for fertility-sparing treatment of early endometrial cancer."},{"id":"sarc","kind":"company","name":"SARC (Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration)","route":"/companies/sarc/","tldr":"SARC is a US non-profit sarcoma research organisation founded in 2003 by sarcoma physicians at five medical centres to run collaborative trials; in OnCo it leads SARC028, the pembrolizumab study across sarcoma subtypes."},{"id":"fondazione-italiana-linfomi","kind":"company","name":"Fondazione Italiana Linfomi","route":"/companies/fondazione-italiana-linfomi/","tldr":"The Fondazione Italiana Linfomi is Italy's non-profit lymphoma trials foundation, constituted in 2010 out of the Intergruppo Italiano Linfomi of 1994 and working with more than 150 Italian centres; in OnCo it leads two lymphoma trials."},{"id":"filo","kind":"company","name":"FILO (French Innovative Leukemia Organisation)","route":"/companies/filo/","tldr":"FILO is the French cooperative group for leukaemia trials, with its registered office in the haematology department of the Tours university hospital; in OnCo it leads a phase 2 trial of eltrombopag in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia."},{"id":"swog","kind":"company","name":"SWOG Cancer Research Network","route":"/companies/swog/","tldr":"SWOG is one of the US National Cancer Institute's cooperative groups: thousands of community and academic sites running practice-changing trials, including the 2026 first-line Hodgkin lymphoma result."},{"id":"nrg-oncology","kind":"company","name":"NRG Oncology","route":"/companies/nrg-oncology/","tldr":"The US cooperative group formed from the radiation, gynaecologic, and breast trial groups; 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nearly every child treated for cancer in the UK is cared for by a CCLG centre."},{"id":"etop-ibcsg","kind":"company","name":"ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation","route":"/companies/etop-ibcsg/","tldr":"The Bern-based foundation that unites the International Breast Cancer Study Group (SOFT, TEXT, POSITIVE) and the European Thoracic Oncology Platform."},{"id":"ifct","kind":"company","name":"Intergroupe Francophone de Cancérologie Thoracique","route":"/companies/ifct/","tldr":"The French thoracic oncology intergroup, which ran the national Biomarkers France programme showing that routine molecular testing of lung cancer improves survival."},{"id":"arcagy-gineco","kind":"company","name":"ARCAGY-GINECO","route":"/companies/arcagy-gineco/","tldr":"The French gynaecologic cancer trials group that led PAOLA-1, the trial adding olaparib to bevacizumab maintenance in ovarian cancer."},{"id":"gog-foundation","kind":"company","name":"GOG Foundation","route":"/companies/gog-foundation/","tldr":"The US gynaecologic oncology trials organisation whose GOG-3000-series trials with industry brought immunotherapy into endometrial and cervical cancer."},{"id":"nsabp-foundation","kind":"company","name":"NSABP Foundation","route":"/companies/nsabp-foundation/","tldr":"The legacy US surgical adjuvant trials group that proved lumpectomy equals mastectomy, tamoxifen prevents breast cancer and trastuzumab cures more HER2-positive disease."},{"id":"ctong","kind":"company","name":"Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group","route":"/companies/ctong/","tldr":"CTONG is the cooperative group of Chinese lung cancer trialists, founded by Yi-Long Wu, whose trials on EGFR-targeted pills before and after surgery changed practice worldwide."},{"id":"itcc","kind":"company","name":"Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer (ITCC)","route":"/companies/itcc/","tldr":"Europe's network of children's hospitals that run the first trials of new cancer drugs in children, so that European children can access experimental medicines close to home."}]}