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Category: Group updates
Clinical Research Associate Lunch and Learn - Jun 24th

The next CCTG Clinical Research Associate (CRA) Lunch and Learn training session will be on Wednesday Jun 24th, 2025, at 12 pm ET, covering the topic of Compliance Tips and CAPA Tricks.

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Category: Group updates
IT UPDATE: Upcoming Medidata Rave EDC UI Enhancements for CCTG2 Studies

The Rave EDC 2026.2.0 release will be deployed on June 29 and includes a refreshed user interface (UI) designed to enhance the user experience. This update applies only to studies within the CCTG2 study group and will not affect studies outside of this group. We anticipate no downtime during this upgrade.

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Category: Group updates
Updated Main & Optional Consent Form Template
An updated version of the Main & Optional Consent Form Template (Dated 2026Apr29 Posted) was recently posted to align with GCP(R3), to clarify withdrawal language pertaining to mandatory samples, and to address minor administrative updates.
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Category: News
Patient Represenative Melanie Keats

CCTG would like to welcome Melanie Keats as the new patient representative supporting the Gynecologic Disease Site Committee. Melanie resides in Halifax Nova Scotia and is a a Professor and Associate Research Scholar, Health Populations Research Institute at Dalhousie University as well as a Nova Scotia Health Authority Affiliated Scientist and Co-Director Physical Activity and Cancer (PAC) Lab.

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Category: News
 2026 CCTG New Investigator Clinical Trials Course
The New Investigator Training Course (NITC) is a long-standing and highly successful 2.5-day educational program that has been training Canadian clinical investigators in the conduct of cancer clinical trials for nearly two decades. Read More

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Category: Office of the Director
June is National Indigenous History Month and Pride Month

Dear colleagues,

June marks both National Indigenous History Month and Pride Month. It is a time to learn about and honour the diverse cultures, histories, and experiences of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples, and to celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of 2SLGBTQI+ communities. It is also an opportunity to reflect on our shared responsibility to advance equitable, inclusive, and culturally safe clinical trial design and conduct.

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Category: Publications
Two Science Direct publications - A PR17 retrospective analysis and OV25 secondary analysis
Two Science Direct publications - A PR17 retrospective analysis and OV25 secondary analysis Read More

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Category: Publications
Publication: General review Tumor-Agnostic Therapies
Cancer treatment is evolving from organ-based classification toward biomarker-driven precision medicine, culminating in the development of tumor-agnostic therapies approved based on molecular characteristics, irrespective of tumor origin. Since the US Food and Drug Administration's landmark 2017 approval of pembrolizumab for microsatellite instability-high tumors, nine tumor-agnostic drugs have been approved, offering unprecedented treatment options for patients with rare cancers and actionable genomic alterations. Read More