The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored cooperative group of individuals and institutions dedicated to treating cancer among children and adolescents. COG’s purpose is to:
- improve the diagnosis and management of children and adolescents with cancer, with the aim of curing every newly diagnosed patient;
- investigate the etiology, pathology and pathophysiology of childhood cancer;
- assure that every child with cancer achieves the highest quality of life during and following treatment;
- expeditiously disseminate knowledge of these objectives in all appropriate media.
Children’s Hospital and the LSUHSC/Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center have been members of COG for almost 20 years. This allows the Children’s Hospital/LSUHSC Minority Community Clinical Oncology Program (MCCOP) to offer innovative and up-to-date clinical trials as part of the NCI-sponsored COG.