The Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP): contributions to the understanding of therapy and the natural history of childhood asthma

The Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) has been in continuous existence for almost two decades, which makes it the largest randomized, placebocontrolled clinical trial with extended follow-up for children with mild to moderate asthma. As such, its cumulative data from baseline, active treatment, and posttreatment have proved to be an invaluable resource for not only assessing the efficacy and safety of long-term inhaled corticosteroid therapy in childhood, but for discovery of many other aspects of childhood asthma, including genetics and biomarkers.