Southwest Oncology Group

**Semantic type:** Health Care Related Organization

**Definition:** An NCI-sponsored cooperative group, an adult cancer clinical trials organization, one of the largest in the world. The group was established in 1956 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX. Its network consists of almost 4,000 of the physicians at 283 institutions throughout the US and Canada. The major goal of the SWOG since 1990 has been to enroll more women and minority patients in cancer treatment and control research trials.

**Synonyms:** - SWOG