June 06, 2018
 PNC.1 (EA8134), InPACT: International Penile Advanced Cancer Trial, has been centrally activated in Canada. Read More |
 CCTG MA.39 TAILOR RT: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF REGIONAL RADIOTHERAPY IN BIOMARKER LOW RISK NODE POSITIVE BREAST CANCER has been centrally activated in Canada Read More |
 A great opportunity to join our team: The Central Operations and Statistics Office located at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario has a job opening for a Monitor/Auditor. |
Study results suggest that a new pancreatic cancer treatment become standard practice world-widePublished: June 06, 2018Category: News  Newly released clinical trial results show a substantial increase in survival rates for pancreatic cancer patients who received a four-drug chemotherapy combination known as mFOLFIRINOX after surgery. The randomized phase III clinical trial was sponsored by the academic cancer research groups of UNICANCER, in Paris, France and the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG). The results show that the risk of cancer recurring in post-operative pancreatic cancer patients was reduced by almost 50% with the mFOLFIRINOX chemotherapy combination. Read More |
 Bladder cancer hit the world stage with an oral presentation at ASCO this past weekend. The presentation of the results of the study was given by Dr. Srikala Sridhar, BL12 Study Chair, at the general meeting in Chicago. Bladder cancer is the 5th most common cancer in Canada with 9000 new cases annually. For patients with advanced disease who progress on first line chemotherapy, options include immunotherapy or taxane-based chemotherapy. Read More |
Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo TAILORx/MAC.12 study findsPublished: June 06, 2018Category: News  Clinical trials are not always about finding a new drugs that works, sometimes they look at what treatments, or what doses, are necessary for patients. Read More |
May 23, 2018
 500 Patients randomized on the SHAPE study!Congratulations to Dr. Dounia Skalli and the team at centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil, France for enrolling the 500th patient to the SHAPE study! On behalf of the SHAPE trial committee, we would like to thank you for your tremendous and unwavering support of our trial. Read More |
Canadian woman are now able to participate in a large North American breast cancer screening trialPublished: May 23, 2018Category: Trials  The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ottawa Hospital are currently enrolling women in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare conventional mammography (2-D) to the newer digital tomosynthesis method (3-D).The large scale North American study was developed by the US based ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) coordinating the trial in Canada (more national sites will be opening the trial over the next several months). Read More |