Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Meeting 2010

The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) was initially organized in 1968 under the direction of Dr. Simon Kramer as a national clinical cooperative group for the purpose of conducting radiation therapy research and cooperative clinical investigations. Funding from the National Cancer Institute began in 1971. The group has grown considerably since the activation of its first study in 1968, an adjuvant methotrexate study for head and neck cancer. Since its inception the Group has activated 300 protocols and accrued a total of about 60,000 patients to cooperative group studies.