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Transdisciplinary studies of surgical oncology trial accrual: A National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Roadmap-affiliated project update.Albrecht TL, Kuerer H, Ruckdeschel JC, Mendez J, Harper F, Department of Family Medicine, Communication and Behavioral Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA. albrecht@karmanos.org BACKGROUND: A key objective of the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative during the past 2 years has been to address scientific problems and issues through innovative research collaborations that cut across disciplines, traditions, and agendas. METHODS: Recognizing an opportunity to focus on the growing problem of low accrual to cancer surgical trials, the authors organized a multidisciplinary network of 21 clinical researchers and social/behavioral scientists to meet, review the issues, and organize working groups to study the problem. The authors, as representatives of the Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, MI) and the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, were awarded a Roadmap-affiliated grant from the National Cancer Institute under the "Meetings and Networks for Methodological Development in Interdisciplinary Research" funding mechanism. RESULTS: The overarching objective that guided the methodological developments of this network was to apply state-of-the-science methodologies and analytical strategies to examine the biobehavioral and interpersonal factors that facilitate or impede patients' treatment decision-making. CONCLUSIONS: In this brief report, the authors describe the objectives of their multidisciplinary network and their progress to date. Published 22 June 2006 in Cancer, 107(1): 171-4.
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