Quality Assurance Review Center
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The Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC) is a publicly funded, not-for-profit healthcare organization located in Providence, Rhode Island. QARC provides radiotherapy quality assurance and diagnostic imaging data management to all of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored cooperative groups. In addition, QARC contracts privately with the pharmaceutical industry to provide its services in clinical trials for anti-cancer drugs. The center receives radiotherapy data from around one-thousand hospitals in both the United States and abroad. Over thirty-thousand cases have been reviewed at QARC since its inception in 1977. The center also maintains a strategic affiliation with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.