What is 20BY25?
20BY25 is a public education campaign that increases awareness about the importance of cancer clinical trials. The goal is to enroll 20% of all individuals with newly diagnosed and relapsed cancers onto clinical trials by the year 2025.
We will accomplish this by:
- providing community education about clinical trials
- engaging and training oncology providers
- encouraging enrollment on to cancer clinical trials
Overall Goal – Ensure that the people of Hawaiʻi
receive the highest quality of cancer care
Today’s “standard” treatment WAS a clinical trial 5-10 years ago.
Today’s clinical trial WILL BE standard care 5-10 years from now.
Initiatives
Achieve enrollment to cancer clinical trials of 20 percent of all individuals
with newly diagnosed and relapsed cancers each year by 2025.
- Community education about cancer clinical trials,
- Engagement and training of oncology providers, and
- Encouraging enrollment to cancer clinical trials.
Long Term Goal
Hawaiʻi will be the ONLY state in the US to achieve this high proportion
of enrollment to clinical trials statewide.
- There are ∼6500 new cancer cases each year in Hawaiʻi
- The goal is to enroll 1300 patients per year onto a cancer clinical trial
- At least one-fourth of these enrollments should be to treatment-based trials. Others may be to cancer prevention, supportive care, diagnostic and cancer healthcare delivery trials.
The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, which already provides a clinical trial infrastructure for over 2/3 of cancer patients in the State, is uniquely positioned to lead this initiative.