Boston - Radiation Therapy Oncology Groups (RTOG) investigators reported recent results from the group's research during 22 presentations at the at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) 50th Annual Meeting in Boston this week. RTOG, a National Cancer Institute funded national clinical trials group, is a clinical research component of the American College of Radiology.

"For the last 40 years RTOG has conducted high quality clinical cancer research involving radiation therapy," said Walter J. Curran, Jr., the RTOG Group Chair, and the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the Emory School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of the Emory Winship Cancer Institute. "The research that RTOG members [presented] at ASTRO demonstrates the breath of the group's clinical investigations. Several of these abstracts report on our testing of advanced technologies in the multi-modality settings coupled with translational and quality-of-life research questions."

The 22 oral and poster presentations highlight some of the group's recent research in breast, central nervous system, gynecologic, head & neck, lung, pancreatic, and prostate malignancies.
Information about RTOG is available at www.rtog.org. Get a list of abstracts here:
http://www.rtog.org/pdf_file.html?abstracts=RTOG%20ASTRO%202008%20Presentations.pdf

The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) is a clinical research enterprise of the American College of Radiology (ACR), located in the ACR Philadelphia, PA office. RTOG is a multi-institutional international clinical cooperative group funded primarily by National Cancer Institute grants CA21661, CA32115 and CA37422. RTOG has 40 years of experience in conducting clinical trials and is comprised of over 300 major research institutions in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The group currently is currently accruing to 40 studies that involve radiation therapy alone or in conjunction with surgery and/or chemotherapeutic drugs or which investigate quality of life issues and their effects on the cancer patient.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is a national professional organization serving more than 32,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of radiology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services

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