Policies

Define areas of conflict of interest and identifies when disclosure should be provided to eventually place limitations on investigators’ participation in EORTC activities.

Protection of Human Subjects Participating in Clinical and Translational Research (POL002)
It provides guidance on how to ensure the protection of the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects pertaining to all EORTC activities within the European framework. This policy also ensures homogeneous conduct of studies involving biological material from patients who have participated in EORTC clinical trials.

It describes the review of research misconduct allegation and the subsequent investigation and outcome.

It describes the use of Independent Data Monitoring Committees in EORTC clinical trials.

It outlines the EORTC policy on intergroup studies in order to facilitate this type of collaboration.

Its describes what is an EORTC labeled meeting and conditions to use the EORTC logo.

It describes the responsibilities of the Scientific Audit Committee (SAC) and the process of EORTC group review.

It defines the terms and conditions under which electronic records of individual data from all or from subsets of the patients from EORTC studies may be shared with other organizations or individual researchers for the purpose of scientific research projects or may be posted on data repositories.

It describes EORTC policy regarding release and publication of results from EORTC clinical studies (including all ancillary research) and from EORTC research projects.
This policy covers timing of release of results, authorship and acknowledgements rules for both abstracts/presentations and peer reviewed publications as well as the process of review by EORTC Headquarters. Compatible Group-specific requirements or contractual agreements may complement the present policy when applicable.

It outlines the missions and tasks of the Translational Research Advisory Committee (TRAC) and the interaction with the EORTC Headquarters (HQ).

It describes the protocol development process and the selection and approval procedures for EORTC studies, focuses on the role of the different EORTC committees in the study selection and development, on the criteria used at different milestones, and on the process for submitting study proposals to EORTC and developing them into full protocols.

Describes the principles for investigational site participation to EORTC studies.

EORTC as a clinical research organisation needs to create a structure for the development and approval of documents that are published as recommendations. These documents are encouraged, as they will increase the EORTC’s visibility and quality of cancer care and should be published in a peer reviewed journal. The forms of these recommendations need to comply with international references for level of evidence and be in compliance with EORTC missions. This policy does not apply to individual studies but to the recommendations dedicated to a specific clinical or methodological situation.

It defines the collection or acquisition, processing, and storage of Human Biological Material (HBM) in EORTC clinical studies and research projects, as well as the conditions of use of the HBM.
The principles developed in this policy apply to all EORTC clinical studies and research projects, as well as intergroup studies for which EORTC is the coordinating group.

EORTC legitimate mission is to coordinate and conduct throughout its network and in collaboration with third parties,
international prospective and retrospective translational and clinical research to improve the standard of cancer
treatment for patients. Aside this primary mission, EORTC also develops and improves research methodologies and
tools and organizes educational events and courses. Last, but not the least, EORTC also raises funds to support its
activities.
This policy describes how EORTC ensure protection of personal data it processes as a data controller and as a data
processor.

The objective of this policy is to describe the principles for membership to the EORTC. It defines the types, the process for application, approval, review and renewal. It also defines the decisions that can be taken towards members that breach the “Terms and Conditions“.

The steps described in this policy require compliance by all Groups and Task Forces, all referred to as “Groups” in this policy.