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Clinical and Metadata Working Group

Key Objectives: 

The ICGC ARGO Clinical Data Model sets the standard for how clinical data is submitted, structured, and governed across member programs. This working group implements the model and continues to develop it.

The group defines and revises standards for clinical data and sample quality, and works directly with data coordinators and curators to keep submission consistent. It sets the cohort metrics that qualify programs for ICGC ARGO membership, including rare cancer and genomic study requirements, convenes sub-working groups where clinical areas need focused development, and reviews and approves exceptions.

The Clinical and Metadata Working Group will oversee the implementation of the ICGC ARGO Clinical Data model, including data submission, data processing and data quality. 

Working Group Leader(s) Name Institution and contact:

Takayuki Yoshino

National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

Takayuki Yoshino, M.D. PhD. currently works at the National Cancer Center Hospital East (NCCE) in Kashiwa, Japan, where he is the Director for the Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology, the Head of the Clinical Research Coordinating Division, and the Head of the Translational Research Division. He has a particular interest in chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers, especially for colorectal cancer (CRC), where he focuses on various investigational new agent and translational research. 

Dr. Yoshino has had over 200 peer‐review scholar journal publications on metastatic CRC (mCRC), with several articles published in the Lancet Journals, Journal of Clinical Oncology, the New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine. In addition, he holds several professional appointments, serving on a Guidelines Steering Committee member of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), a chair of Pan‐Asian adapted ESMO Guideline for CRC, an advisory committee member of American Society (ASCO) Breakthrough, Editorial Board of ESMO/ASCO Global Curriculum and the administrative board & a vice chair of international affairs committee of both Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO) and Japan Society of Clinical Oncology (JSCO). Dr. Yoshino is also a Co‐principal investigator of the SCRUM‐Japan GI‐/MONSTAR‐SCREEN, the Nationwide Cancer Genome Screening Project, a project program director of the CIRCULATE‐Japan, the President of 22nd Century Cutting‐Edge Medical Information Technology Organization (22CEMIT), and is a leader of the SCRUM‐Japan GI‐/MONSTAR‐ SCREEN (advanced solid tumor) project of ICGC‐ARGO.

Working Group Contact: 

Amber Johns- amber@icgc-argo.org 


Current Membership List:

Name 

Institution

  

Country

Hideaki Bando 

Leon Xiangyu Gao

National Cancer Center Hospital East

Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute

Japan

China

Amber Johns

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Australia

Linda Xiang 

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Canada

Lincoln Stein

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Canada

See-Hoon Lee

Andrew Biankin 

Olivier Michelin

Samsung Medical Center

University of Glasgow

Lausanne University Hospital

South Korea 

UK

Switzerland


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