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Latest Summit on Clinical Trials: In Era of Targeted Therapy, Clinical Trials Needed More than Ever

C HANTILLY, VA—“We have enemies from outside ourselves, as the events of September 11 clearly demonstrated, and we have enemies from within, as oncologists know only too well. We must fight both types of enemies, and we must do it with unity.” So said Larry Norton, MD, President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, who is Head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Chief of the Breast Cancer Medical Service, and the Norma S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, in his opening remarks at the fifth of the Summit Series on Cancer Clinical Trials, held here in October. The three-day meeting, “Retooling the System: The Changes Ahead and How to Prepare for Them,” was presented by the Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups (CNCCG) and the Cancer Research Foundation of America (CRFA). Additional sponsors were ASCO, the Oncology Nursing Society, the Cancer Leadership Council, and the National Dialogue on Cancer. Corporate sponsors were Amgen, Inc.; Aventis Pharmaceuticals; Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology; Eli Lilly and Company; Genentech BioOncology, Inc.; Ortho-Biotech Products, LP; Pharmacia Corporation; and US Oncology, Inc. “The Human Genome Project has taught us some of the limits of human variability,” Dr. Norton said. “We now know that there is less variability between any two human beings on earth than there is between any two individuals of any other species. The September 11 disaster has taught us that we are all members of the same human family. Together, these two things mean that we must work together. We need unity. Without unity, we have no life.”