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Because milestones indicate the progress of a trial, you can view, but not change recorded milestones. However, you can add records throughout the life cycle of the trial submission. You can not add milestones to trials that are currently on hold.

For trials with one or more amendments, the system displays milestones in sets, one for each submission. You can add milestones only when the Submission Number is the Active Milestone set, as shown below.

Trial Milestones page annotated to indicate the active submission set

If you select an Inactive Submission set, that is, one that contains a previous submission, you can not add new milestones. In the figure below, the selected Submission Number is 5 (out of 6 submissions).

Trial Milestones page annotated to indicate an inactive submission set

An abstractor can reject an amendment submission without rejecting the whole trial.

Trial Milestones page with rejected amendment, annotated to indicate an inactive submission set

If an abstractor has rejected an amendment submission, the system displays the last Active milestone set by default, as shown below.

Trial Milestones page with the last active submission set

How to View and Add Milestones

  1. In any list of trial search results, click the NCI Trial Identifier link for the trial of interest.
  2. On the Trial Overview menu, click Trial Milestones. The Trial Milestones page appears and displays all milestones recorded to date.
  3. To add a milestone, in the Add Milestone section at the bottom of the page, select the milestone you want to add from the drop-down list. The following sections list valid milestones, processing statuses, and the rules for recording them. For milestone definitions, see Trial milestone definitions.
  4. In the Date field, enter the milestone date. The system enters the current date by default.

  5. In the Comment field, type the action that triggered the milestone, or any comments about the event. The comments field is limited to 200 characters.

  6. Click Add Milestone.
    If you are adding Late Rejection milestone to an amended trial, the system gives you a choice.
    Message that appears when you reject an amended trial, with two choices.
  7. If this message appears, select Reject Entire Trial or select Reject This Amendment Only.
    The system displays the milestone at the bottom of the list of milestones in the Trial Milestones section of the page.
  8. Repeat the steps above after you complete each abstraction update as appropriate.