UK HealthCare recently opened the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network;s (ORIEN) Total Cancer Care Protocol to pediatric patients, becoming the first cancer program in the country to do so.
ORIEN is an alliance of 19 major cancer centers that shares information to allow its members to push forward evidence-based cancer care to patients. In 2017, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center joined the network; just over the year later, Markey hit a milestone of enrolling more than 1,000 patients, placing it in the top third of the consortium in terms of accrual rate.
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