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The Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC)
was funded in 1980 to provide Radiation therapy QA services to the
National Cancer Cooperative Groups funded by the National Cancer
Institute (NCI). Over the next 3 decades QARC added diagnostic imaging
data management and review facilitation to its portfolio of services. In
1995 Dr. TJ FitzGerald became Director of QARC and the grant was moved
to the University of Massachusetts Medical School where Dr. FitzGerald
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology. In
November 2011 the NCI announced the transition of the Cooperative Group
program to a new National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). All of the
cooperative agreements funded under the old program (including QARC)
began a planned phase out. In July 2012 funding announcements to
establish the NCTN were posted. Within the network there is funding for
one organization to provide imaging and radiation oncology QA services.
QARC has joined with the 5 other legacy QA centers to form a new
organization known as IROC (Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core
Cooperative) to serve the NCTN. Under the IROC umbrella these 6 highly
experienced QA Centers will provide an integrated program with
standardized services in service to the entire NCTN. |
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