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QUALITY ASSURANCE The Children's Oncology Group has all of its protocol driven cases reviewed at the Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC). As mandated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), every Radiotherapy department participating in a COG study must submit their data to QARC for review. QARC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and reviews thousands of cases per year. The center was founded in 1977 as a not-for-profit healthcare organization designed to provide quality assurance for CALGB studies. Radiotherapy data from around one-thousand Hospitals in both the United States and abroad is reviewed and archived at QARC. Another center for quality assurance is the Radiological Physics Center (RPC) in Houston, Texas . The primary responsibility of the RPC is to assure the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its cooperative groups like COG that all participating institutions are following the guidelines set-forth for the physics-related aspects of radiotherapy. Established in 1968 , the RPC has consistently received funding from the NCI in order to perform the aforementioned mission. EXTERNAL LINKS
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