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Gynecological Oncology Group (GOG)
Ingres Corporation is powering cancer research at the Gynecological Oncology Group (GOG). The GOG is an organization funded by the National Cancer Institute to perform quality clinical research on female pelvic cancers. The GOG uses Ingres Database, the leading open source database for business-critical applications, as the back-end to their web-based, form-driven clinical research. With Ingres Database, health professionals at more than 48 institutes around the world can go online to qualify patients for trials, submit cumulative data on patient response to treatment, and query and run reports. Ultimately, statisticians analyze collected data to present research findings in peer-reviewed medical publications.
Organized in 1970 by a group of gynecological surgeons interested in quality clinical research, the GOG is a non-profit organization funded by the National Cancer Institute. The GOG conducts approximately 45 clinical trials at any given time – each trial tests a new cancer drug or new use of an established drug, and collects cumulative data on individual patient responses. To conduct a clinical trial, the GOG must be able to collect cumulative data on how each patient has responded to treatment via online forms. Then, the data must be made available to the patient’s treatment team 24 x 7 for monitoring and analysis. The GOG uses Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to hold all the data and handle all back-end definitions for its web-based, form-drive research. They also run Crystal Reports in conjunction with Ingres Database to generate and distribute reports.
“We must capture and analyze clinical trial data on up to 3,000 patients per year. Mistakes can be the difference between life and death, so we can’t make mistakes. That is why we have always trusted Ingres Database,” said Bill Elgie, director of information technology at the GOG. “In fact, we don’t even have a true database administrator on staff because Ingres runs perfectly. Overall, the use of an open source database has lowered our total cost of ownership, scaled seamlessly throughout the growth at the GOG, and transparently provides us with a highly available and resilient foundation.”
With the help of Ingres Database, the GOG has been able to run an active and effective program for the study of new chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of gynecological cancer. In patients with advanced cervical, endometrial, and ovarian cancers, the GOG has defined many significant improvements associated with the use of certain pharmaceuticals. The results of its studies have provided new standards of treatment for ovarian cancers.
“We are pleased and gratified that Ingres Database is playing such a vital role in the critical area of cancer research,” said Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Ingres. “Ingres Database delivers reliable, secure, efficient data management in a single integrated product at an affordable cost. Ingres understands the importance of having your data available 24 x 7. Ingres Database is engineered to keep your Ingres-based solutions up and available around the clock and is the only open source database that combines the flexibility of open source with the business critical availability and reliability of commercial database management system (DBMS) platforms.”
The GOG also has plans to adopt Ingres Icebreaker; a database system designed to simplify the deployment and maintenance of database services, greatly reducing the traditional IT cost and overhead.
Organized in 1970 by a group of gynecological surgeons interested in quality clinical research, the GOG is a non-profit organization funded by the National Cancer Institute. The GOG conducts approximately 45 clinical trials at any given time – each trial tests a new cancer drug or new use of an established drug, and collects cumulative data on individual patient responses. To conduct a clinical trial, the GOG must be able to collect cumulative data on how each patient has responded to treatment via online forms. Then, the data must be made available to the patient’s treatment team 24 x 7 for monitoring and analysis. The GOG uses Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to hold all the data and handle all back-end definitions for its web-based, form-drive research. They also run Crystal Reports in conjunction with Ingres Database to generate and distribute reports.
“We must capture and analyze clinical trial data on up to 3,000 patients per year. Mistakes can be the difference between life and death, so we can’t make mistakes. That is why we have always trusted Ingres Database,” said Bill Elgie, director of information technology at the GOG. “In fact, we don’t even have a true database administrator on staff because Ingres runs perfectly. Overall, the use of an open source database has lowered our total cost of ownership, scaled seamlessly throughout the growth at the GOG, and transparently provides us with a highly available and resilient foundation.”
With the help of Ingres Database, the GOG has been able to run an active and effective program for the study of new chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of gynecological cancer. In patients with advanced cervical, endometrial, and ovarian cancers, the GOG has defined many significant improvements associated with the use of certain pharmaceuticals. The results of its studies have provided new standards of treatment for ovarian cancers.
“We are pleased and gratified that Ingres Database is playing such a vital role in the critical area of cancer research,” said Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Ingres. “Ingres Database delivers reliable, secure, efficient data management in a single integrated product at an affordable cost. Ingres understands the importance of having your data available 24 x 7. Ingres Database is engineered to keep your Ingres-based solutions up and available around the clock and is the only open source database that combines the flexibility of open source with the business critical availability and reliability of commercial database management system (DBMS) platforms.”
The GOG also has plans to adopt Ingres Icebreaker; a database system designed to simplify the deployment and maintenance of database services, greatly reducing the traditional IT cost and overhead.
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