You are creating hope.

Consenting to ORIEN Total Cancer Care® gives you the opportunity to help advance cancer research relevant to YOU and help discover life-changing treatments for future patients.

Join the 350,000+ people who have consented to TCC

Learn how your participation builds on 10+ years of data and research

Be confident in your decision, over 9 out of 10 patients at ORIEN cancer centers consent to TCC

Support the research of 18 leading academic cancer centers and some of the world's largest industry research groups

Total Cancer Care® (TCC):
Where patients become life-long partners

As a participant in TCC, you are a valued partner, working together with researchers and doctors to find better treatments as quickly as possible.

TCC brings together patients' health information into one data system - powering cancer research. This helps doctors and researchers find patients with similar conditions, which may guide clinical decision making and help find targeted treatments.

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ORIEN

ORIENTM (Oncology Research Information Exchange Network) is a collaboration of leading cancer centers that partner with patients enrolled in Total Cancer Care, giving health data the power to advance cancer research.

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Aster Insights

Utilizing the Institutional Review Board-approved protocol, Total Cancer Care®, Aster Insights connects patients' health data, ORIEN members, and drug discovery organizations to work towards a future where every person with cancer lives a full and healthy life.

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The power of many begins with you

350,000+. That is the number of people consented to TCC. As a person, as a patient, as a partner, you help researchers find answers to the toughest questions in cancer and advance research into effective treatments.

You can feel confident that samples and data are used meaningfully—enabling research relevant to you and changing the lives of generations to come.

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TCC Patients

Patient Education

Learn what powers meaningful studies and clinical trials and better understand ORIEN’s approach to cancer research.

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Research Updates

Find research relevant to you and see how ORIEN cancer centers use TCC patient data to discover and advance life-saving treatments.

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FAQs

  • You help researchers learn more about the toughest questions in cancer and move research into effective treatments.
  • You contribute to learning about patients just like you.
  • Your health information improves our ability to match future TCC patients to targeted clinical trials at the right time.
  • You can feel confident that your participation is helping future generations.

Each ORIEN Member cancer center has an individualized TCC consent form that explains how your health information will be used in future cancer research for as long as it is available.

TCC connects your health information with data from all the other TCC participants. Researchers and doctors study this large database to uncover trends to gain new insights about cancer. They share findings with other researchers to find better answers now and direct future research.

Contact your ORIEN Member cancer center team for more information.

Your privacy is a top priority for ORIEN. ORIEN Member cancer centers follow strict federal guidance. Your personal identifying information is removed before your health information is shared. This protects your privacy while still helping researchers learn from your health information.

Contact your ORIEN Member cancer center team for more information.

You can sign up through a doctor who works with an ORIEN Member cancer center (a cancer center involved in ORIEN). If you are interested, ask your doctor to assist you in enrolling or, if they are not involved in ORIEN, to refer you somewhere that is. Find the closest ORIEN TCC Member cancer center site to you here.

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