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Category: Group updates
 Dr Lereux who was awaded a CCS research grant

Congratulations from CCTG! The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) has funded its first research grant focused specifically on rare and aggressive uterine cancers, a critical first step to better outcomes for people with these cancers to Dr Stephanie Lheureux.

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The Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) is currently seeking applications for a Patient Representative for the Head and Neck Disease Site Committee (cancer inside the nose, throat or mouth).

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Category: Publications
MA21 - Anthracyclines are frequently used in adjuvant treatment for early-stage breast cancer (ESBC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate cardiotoxic effects in the first five years after treatment with different anthracycline-based regimens.
ALC3 - Patients with acute myeloid leukemia with high-risk cytogenetics in first complete remission (CR1) achieve better outcomes if they undergo allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) compared with consolidation chemotherapy alone. However, only approximately 40% of such patients typically proceed to HCT.
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Category: Trials

The PR22 (ANZUP 1801) study DASL-HiCaP: Darolutamide Augments Standard Therapy for Localized Very High-Risk Cancer of the Prostate. A Randomized Phase III Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Adding Darolutamide to Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Definitive or Salvage Radiation in Very High Risk, Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer has been centrally activated in Canada.

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Accrual Milestone for MAC22 (TMIST)
CCTG is sends a big congratulations to all of the TMIST participating centres in Canada. Just twelve weeks later after 4000 subjects were accrued in late August, we have reached another BIG milestone for the MAC22 study: more than 5000 are enrolled in Canada!
 
"MAC22 continues to enroll beyond expectations and has made a significant contribution to the overall trial accrual.
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CCTG would like to extend congratulations to Dr. Kelvin Chan the recipient of the 2020 Dr. Maurice McGregor Award from Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). The Dr. Maurice McGregor Award, honours rising stars early in their careers.

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Dr. Tony Reiman CCS Research Chair, University of New Brunswick

Congratulations to our CCTG Hematologic Disease Site Chair, Dr. Tony Reiman, who has been successfully reappointed as the Canadian Cancer Society Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick.

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Great news to share from the CCTG IC8 trial team! The study already has 6 sites currently participating with 29 patients accrued. Congrats to all of the trial teams at:

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