Indian Co-operative Oncology Network (ICON - ARO)
The Indian Cooperative Oncology Network (ICON) is an independent organization dedicated to the cause of cancer patient care in India. It is a registered charitable organization (NGO), working in this field since 1999 (registered with charity commissioner of Greater Mumbai). ICON is India’s first and largest co-operative study group.
ICON’s mission statements are:
- To aim for better prevention and management of human cancers in this country.
- To foster and encourage cooperative clinical research in oncology at a national level.
- To participate in all phases of clinical research in oncology while upholding respect for individual patients.
- To generate data that is of high quality, ethical, complies with good clinical practices and which is acceptable to regulatory and statutory bodies /authorities.
- To disseminate such knowledge at local, regional, national and international levels.
- To promote the development of oncology as a subspecialty in India.
ICON focuses on Research at a national and international level. So far ICON has undertaken 31 protocols of which 10 are completed, 11 are ongoing, 9 are under review and 1 has been discontinued. ICON has dedicated ethics and scientific review committees. It also has a managing committee of 12 members, a scientific advisory committee, an international committee and a data monitoring committee. In addition they have specific disease committees that look into various research protocols and programs.
ICON has its own state of the art web site, www.oncologyindia.org, where all ICON related details can be found. Please click on the link for more information. It will provide you details of our Highlights and Meetings, Fellowships, research projects and protocols, societal contribution to India, scientific presentations and publications, activities for development of HR – education and research, collaborative conferences, cancer awareness and detection camps and workshops, anti tobacco campaign, cancer helpline, oncoclinique software and Standard Operating Procedures for ICON research activities.
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