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Data and Safety Monitoring Example Plans
    Posted: 07/08/2002    Reviewed: 01/26/2005
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Data and Safety Monitoring Guidelines 1
A guide to the formulation of DSM plans for all phases of cancer clinical trials, in accordance with NIH requirements.
Data and Safety Monitoring Example Plans: Introduction

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Cancer Center

Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth

University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Data and Safety Monitoring Example Plans: Introduction

Examples of NCI-approved Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plans are shown in this section. These plans (in PDF format) were submitted by NCI-designated Cancer Centers in response to the NIH and NCI policies governing data and safety monitoring. They were approved by the NCI Data and Safety Monitoring Review Panel after a review of the plans based on criteria emanating from the NCI's Data and Safety Monitoring Guidelines: Essential Elements 2.

The reader should note that these plans differ in a number of ways. Each plan is tailored to and reflects the particular features of a given Cancer Center's clinical trials program. In addition, each plan has both strengths and weaknesses, and thus the plans should be studied for the value they have to offer as different approaches to data and safety monitoring.

We gratefully acknowledge the careful thought and hard work by Cancer Center leaders and members who produced these Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plans. We especially thank them for their willingness to allow the plans to be posted here.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Cancer Center

The following Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (in PDF format) is from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Cancer Center, Arthur W. Nienhuis, M.D., Director. The Plan appears in its entirety with the exception of Appendix 4. Contact information is included on the first page of the document for readers who would like to request a copy of Appendix 4.

Once you are viewing the PDF, you can click on the titles listed in the table of contents to jump to that section of the plan.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Cancer Center Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (PDF) 4
Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center

The following Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (in PDF format) is from Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Darell Bigner, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Director. The plan appears in its entirety.

Once you are viewing the PDF, you can click on the titles listed in the table of contents to jump to that section of the plan.

Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center DCCC Protocol Review and Monitoring System (PDF) 5
Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth

The following Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (in PDF format) is from Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, Mark A. Israel, M.D., Director. The plan appears in its entirety.

Once you are viewing the PDF, you can click on the titles listed in the table of contents to jump to that section of the plan.

Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (PDF) 6
University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

The following Institutional Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (in PDF format) is from the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, John E. Niederhuber, M.D., Director. The plan appears in its entirety, including appendices.

Once you are viewing the PDF, you can click on the titles listed in the table of contents to jump to that section of the plan.

University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) Policy and Procedures for Data and Safety Monitoring (PDF) 7



Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/conducting/dsm-guidelines
2http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/conducting/dsm-guidelines/page3
3http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
4http://www.cancer.gov/images/Documents/f69cebbb-fe0b-4f89-bee3-1609c2f5197b/StJ
udePLAN.pdf
5http://www.cancer.gov/images/Documents/f69cebbb-fe0b-4f89-bee3-1609c2f5197b/Duk
eDSMPLAN.pdf
6http://www.cancer.gov/images/Documents/f69cebbb-fe0b-4f89-bee3-1609c2f5197b/Nor
risCottonDSMPlan.pdf
7http://www.cancer.gov/images/Documents/f69cebbb-fe0b-4f89-bee3-1609c2f5197b/Wis
consinDSMPlan.pdf