SWOG Cancer Research Network is part of the publicly funded National Cancer Institute’s National Clinical Trials Network and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program. SWOG has nearly 20,000 members in 45 states and nine other countries who design and conduct clinical trials to improve the lives of people with cancer. The group was founded by the National Cancer Institute in 1956. SWOG trials have led to the approval of 14 cancer drugs, changed more than 100 standards of cancer care, and saved more than 3 million years of human life. Group operations are based at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, and in San Antonio, TX. SWOG's statistics and data management center is based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and at Cancer Research And Biostatistics (CRAB), both in Seattle, WA. The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research, the public charity that supports SWOG, is based in Ann Arbor, MI. Across these multiple offices and remotely, SWOG employs a variety of professionals with expertise in protocol development and clinical research, statistical analysis, data management, quality assurance, budgets and contracts, information technology and web development, legal analysis, communications, and more.