From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group
Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group
The Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group (IRS) tially to provide quality assurance for CALGB studies. Ra-
was a U.S. and Canadian clinical trial cooperative group diotherapy data from around one-thousand hospitals in
created with the mission of studying childhood cancers. both the United States and abroad is reviewed and
In 2000, IRS merged with several other pediatric coopera- archived at QARC.
tive groups to form the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). Another center for quality assurance is the Radio-
This merger has seen its fair share of problems, especially logical Physics Center (RPC) in Houston, Texas. The pri-
with regard to integrating the various databases associat- mary responsibility of the RPC is to assure the National
ed with each individual cooperative group. One such ini- Cancer Institute (NCI) and its former cooperative group
tiative to consolidate these databases involves caBIG or IRS that all participating institutions were following the
cancer BIG, which is guided and supported by the Nation- guidelines set-forth for the physics-related aspects of ra-
al Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland. diotherapy. Established in 1968, the RPC has consistently
received funding from the NCI in order to perform the
Quality Assurance aforementioned mission.
The Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group used to
have all of its protocol driven cases reviewed at the Qual-
External links
ity Assurance Review Center (QARC). As formerly man- • Children’s Oncology Group
dated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), every ra- • caBIG
diotherapy department participating in a IRS study used • National Cancer Institute
to have to submit their data to QARC for review. QARC • National Institutes of Health
is located in Providence, Rhode Island and reviews thou- • Quality Assurance Review Center
sands of cases per year. The center was founded in 1977 • Radiological Physics Center
as a not-for-profit healthcare organization designed ini-
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