Cancer: Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Consortium: International Soft Tissue Sarcoma Consortium (INSTRuCT)
Headquarters: University of Chicago
Consortium Manager: Suzi Birz, sbirz@bsd.uchicago.edu
Researchers from the United States and Europe have created this consortium with the goal of establishing a database containing information from clinical trials on children with rhabdomyosarcoma from around the world and making that clinical data available to investigators for data mining studies. The INSTRuCT database will soon integrate clinical data from the COG, the German BFM and CWS groups, the European Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG), the Italian AIEOP-STSC group, and the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP).