Cervix Cancer Research Network (CCRN): Improving Access to Cervix Cancer Trials on a Global Scale

David Gaffney1, Bill Small, Henry Kitchener

  • 1*Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; †Department of Surgery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; ‡Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; §Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea; ∥Department of Radiation Oncology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ¶National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC; #Sunnybrook Health Science Center, Toronto, Canada; **Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; ††Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India; ‡‡Radiating Hope, Salt Lake City, UT; §§Elekta, Veenendaal, the Netherlands; ∥∥Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA; ¶¶BEBIG, Lübeck Area, Germany; ##Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and ***The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

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