Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC) Meeting
Hosted by QARC -- Providence, RI
August 1, 2007


The goals as specified in the RFA for our ATC renewal application are to be accomplished through the following developmental, coordination, and service objectives:
  1. Eliminate duplication of infrastructure developmental efforts and facilitate sharing of QA resources among cooperative groups.
  2. Help to insure that appropriate and uniform QA procedures and criteria for advanced technology trials are developed across all cooperative groups.
  3. Facilitate/help manage the uniform credentialing of institutions for advanced radiotherapy trial protocols.
  4. Facilitate/manage digital data protocol submission.
  5. Facilitate/manage the QA review of submitted data.
  6. Further the development of methods for rapid analysis of volumetric treatment planning data.
  7. Assist clinical trial cooperative groups in the development of clinical trials protocols including: (a) credentialing requirements; (b) target volume definitions; (c) quality assurance procedures; and (d) data submission instructions.
  8. Develop, implement, and maintain innovative methods for electronic exchange of digital planning data between institutions participating in clinical trials and between QA Centers.
  9. Develop, implement, and maintain innovative web-based software tools to facilitate protocol digital data reviews by Study Chairs, Dosimetry Groups, the Radiological Physics Center (RPC), and the Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC).
  10. Develop, implement, and maintain archival treatment planning and QA databases that can be linked with the cooperative groups' clinical outcomes databases.
  11. Demonstrate understanding of and ability to achieve compatibility with existing software and electronic health record standards, including the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) and DICOM RT.




Meeting Agenda (with links to presentations in PDF format)

7:30 AM   Welcome by Local Host (Dr. FitzGerald)
7:35 AM   Project Officer Report (Deye)
7:45 AM   P.I.'s Report (Purdy)
Software Development Efforts
8:15 AM   QARC/ATC (Dr. FitzGerald and QARC Staff)
9:15 AM   Development of schedule for QuASAR (Quality Assurance Submission, Analysis, and Review) system updates and expansion (Bosch/Purdy)
9:45 AM   Report on CERR developments in support of ATC (including RPC effort) (Deasy/Ulin)
10:15 AM   Break
10:30 AM   CALGB Clinical Trials/QARC/ITC/caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace efforts (Saltz/FitzGerald/Purdy)
11:00 AM   Exploration of ways in which the ATC effort could become synergistic with the PLUNC effort (Purdy)
11:15 AM   Update on ATC compliant Treatment Planning Systems and IHE-RO Effort (Bosch/Matthews)
11:30 AM   Discussion and recap of software development priorities and time tables (Purdy and all participants)
12:00 PM   Lunch
Coordination & Developmental (Credentialing & QA) Efforts
12:45 PM   Dose Calculation Algorithm/Heterogeneity Corrections Clinical Trial issues (Ibbott/Followill)
1:00 PM   RTOG IGRT QA Guidelines; adoption by QARC (Galvin, Michalski, FitzGerald)
1:20 PM   Adaptive Radiation Therapy Clinical Trials Requirements-ATC Developmental Needs (Michalski/FitzGerald)
1:35 PM   Proton Guidelines (Urie/Ibbott)
Service Efforts
1:50 PM   QARC ATC Supported Protocols
  • QARC Credentialing and QA report
2:05 PM   RTOG/NSABP ATC Supported Protocols
  • RPC Credentialing and QA report (Ibbott)
  • ITC credentialing and Data Integrity QA Report (Straube)
  • RTOG credentialing and Protocol QA Compliance Report (O'Meara)
2:35 PM   ITC ATC Supported Protocols (Straube/Bosch/Purdy)
  • JCOG 0403 Protocol: Phase II study of SBRT in patients with T1N0M0 NSCLC and second SBRT protocol
  • EORTC ATC Supported Meningioma Protocol
  • NABTT ATC Support
  • Astra Zeneca
2:50 PM   Open Discussion
3:10 PM   Development of new ATC Priority List (Purdy and all participants)
3:25 PM   Next Meetings/Teleconferences (Purdy and all participants)
3:30 PM   Adjourn

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