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Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Nov 9;16(22):5381–5389. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-1273

Table 3.

Activation and Opening Times at Cooperative Groups and Cancer Centers

	n	Calendar Days
Cooperative Group^*		Median	min-max
CALGB	13	784	(537 - 1130)
ECOG	28	808	(435 - 1604)
Cancer Center ^**

Cancer Center A	58	120	(27 - 657)
Cancer Center B^***	3	252	(139 - 315)
Cancer Center C^***	4	122	(81 - 179)
Cancer Center D	178	116	(21 - 836)

Cooperative Group development time is the number of calendar days from the time cooperative group recieves a LOI/Concept from the study chair until the study is centrally activated

^**

Cancer Center development time is the number of calendar days the day the PI formally submits the trial for consideration until the study is open to patient enrollment at the local site

^***

Cancer Centers B and C only provided samples of their protfolio of studies