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The Inter-SPORE Prostate Biomarker Study (IPBS) is a multi-center prospective study that began recruiting in Fall 2006 a target total of 700 participants diagnosed with prostate cancer (pre- primary treatment). The purpose of the study is to investigate new potential biomarker alternatives to PSA. The 700 participants are providing biological samples (tissue cores taken at time of needle biopsy and blood samples) and consenting to three years of annual follow up. The study has begun and participants are being accured at each of the 11 NCI-funded Specialized Programs of Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Centers (SPORE in Prostate Cancer).
Ptracker is the central research data management system that all 11 sites are using to accure participants, submit case report forms (electronically) and manage the handling of biological samples. Some of pTracker was customized to support 11 different sites collaborating. In addition, the IPBS pTracker data management system utilized several stock OpenACS 5.2 components: for example, Directory, News, and File Storage.
Click on the image to the right for a larger version. -> This project required that we deine two separate pTracker studies to address the requirements. One pTracker study models the accural of patients, and so the object that is moved through the accural workflow is a patient study participant (See the bottom right section of the image). The second pTracker study models the shipping of biological samples collected from many patients to Central Pathology (see the yellow shaped area on the right side of the image).
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