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Category: Trials
Trial closure: PA6

Please be aware that the trial PA6: Multicentre Randomized Phase III Trial Comparing 6-Month Adjuvant Chemotherapy With Gemcitabine Versus 5-fluorouracil, Leucovorin, Irinotecan and Oxaliplatin (mFolfirinox) In Patients With Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma has been permanently closed.

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Trial-specific DSMC Summary Reports

Trial-specific DSMC Summary Reports are now posted on trial websites. Single-study centres participating on these trials should download these reports and submit them to their Research Ethics Boards if required by local policy. Trials currently under CCTG's DSMC oversight include:

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The CLC.3E sub-study: An Economic Analysis of Early vs Delayed Therapy in Newly Diagnosed Asymptomatic High-Risk Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma: A Companion Analysis to CCTG CLC.3 / SWOG 1925 Randomized Phase 3 Clinical Trial had been centrally activated.

Objectives: Primary: To determine the incremental cost-utility ratio of an early novel therapy approach (venetoclax-obinutuzumab) compared to a deferred approach in Canadian patients with high-risk CLL.

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Category: Group updates

CCTG would like to welcome Bill Richardson a new Patient Representative who will be working with the Head and Neck disease site committee. Bill is located in Calgary with a microbiologist background and has worked in government, private industry, teaching and later moved to IT spending 30 years in the Kinesiology Faculty at the University of Calgary.

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Dr. Alexander Wyatt keynote at New Investigator Clinical Trials Course

The CCTG New Investigator Clinical Trials Course is fast approaching and has already reached the maximum registration. The course will be held August 3 – 5, 2022 in Kingston, Ontario to provide and facilitate investigator education and training designed to educate new investigators from across the country about the essentials of clinical trial conduct in the Canadian research environment.

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Three trials funded GU ASCENDE, IND241 SURELY, EN11 RAINBO-GREEN
Three CCTG trials were recently awarded nearly $7.5M from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2022 Spring Project Grant competition. Read More

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Category: Publications
General Review Publications for iRECIST and atypical patterns of response to immuno-oncology drugs, Complementary Medicine Use Amongst Patients with Metastatic Cancer Enrolled in Phase III Clinical Trials, Validating Restricted Mean Survival Time Estimates from Reconstructed Kaplan-Meier Data Against Original Trial Individual Patient Data, and Dietary fiber and probiotics influence the gut microbiome and melanoma immunotherapy response Read More

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Trial Activation: MEC6
MEC6 A Randomized Phase II Trial of Adjuvant Nivolumab with or without Cabozantinib in Patients with Resected Muscosal Melanoma has been centrally activated.
 
This phase II trial tests whether nivolumab in combination with cabozantinib works in patients with mucosal melanoma. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
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