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Category: Group updates
CCTG Tissue Bank Holiday Season Notice:

Shipment of Specimens for Banking + Kit Supply

To all centres participating on trials where frozen fluids (blood, serum, plasma, urine, etc.) and formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissues (FFPE tumour blocks, slides, etc.) are collected and banked at the CCTG Tissue Bank:

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Category: News
Congratulations to Florencia Comelles and Claire Norman

For over seven years the Dr. Frances Shepherd Award has supported investigators or post-graduate trainees who's CCTG research project demonstrates excellence in clinical trials and translational research. This Award provides travel support to present CCTG work at major international and national meetings. The CCTG Scientific Leadership selection task force have recently announced two new Award recipients, congratulations to Florencia Comelles and Claire Norman who will be formally presented their award at the CCTG Spring Meeting 2026.

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Category: Publications
Publication: Pooled Analysis BR34, CO26, IND226 and PA7

Effects of serotonergic drugs on immune checkpoint inhibitor response: a pooled analysis of individual patient data from four Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) trials BR34, CO26, I226 and PA7

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Category: Publications
Publication: PR19 analysis of initial arms

A randomized Phase II trial of High Dose-Rate (HDR) and Low Dose-Rate (LDR) brachytherapy as monotherapy in localized prostate cancer: analysis of initial arms of Canadian cancer trials group PR19

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Category: Publications
Publication: BLC4 secondary analysis
CCTG BLC4 (SWOG S1605) Urine Tumor DNA to Stratify the Risk of Recurrence
 
This study demonstrates that urine tumor DNA profiling can be used to stratify the risk of recurrence in patients after treatment with atezolizumab for bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle-invasi
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Category: Publications
Publication: CO7 meta analysis
CO7 - systemic chemotherapy for patients with resectable or resected colorectal cancer liver metastases: An individual patient data meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised phase III trials comparing surgery plus systemic chemotherapy with surgery alone in patients with CRCLM. Analyses were performed in the overall intention-to-treat (ITT) population, in patients who had curative-intent surgery (resected population), and in those who received post-operative chemotherapy only.
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Category: Publications
Publication: EN10 EN11  Barriers to Implementation

Endometrial Carcinoma Molecular Classification and Barriers to Implementation, Possible Solutions, and the Implications for Ongoing Clinical Trials. 

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Category: Publications
Publication: IND227 updated analysis
Abstract IND.227 oral presentation at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Barcelona, Spain, on 8 September, 2025. Subsequently published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
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