CCTG has opened the anticipated international brain cancer study CCTG CE9 (LUMOS2) - joining forces with the Australian Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO) to make enrollment accessible to Canadian patients.
MODERN: An Integrated Phase 2/3 and Phase 3 Trial of MRD-Based Optimization of Adjuvant Therapy in Urothelial Cancer
Radiotherapy to Block (CURB2) Oligoprogression In Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Comparing Palliative Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy vs. Palliative Standard Radiotherapy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
LND101 for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Combination with Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Patients with Advanced Melanoma
The CCTG ES3 NEEDS international esophageal cancer clinical trial is now opened in Canada. The study is investigating whether delaying surgery for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus is as good as the current treatment.
Eradicating MRD in Patients with AML prior to Stem Cell Transplant (ERASE)
VIGOR: Vorasidenib as Maintenance Treatment after First-line Chemoradiotherapy in IDH-mutant Grade 2 or 3 Astrocytoma
Botensilimab + Balstilimab or Botensilimab Alone vs Best Supportive Care as Therapy in Chemo-refractory, Advanced, Colorectal Adenocarcinoma: The BATTMAN Trial
STRIDE (durvalumab + tremelimumab) with Lenvatinib vs STRIDE Alone in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (SLIDE-HCC)
CALMS: Combination Therapy with Luspatercept in Lower Risk MDS CTEP approval: 2024AUG27 (date of US Steering Committee Evaluation)
Lanreotide for the Prevention of Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula
The CCTG Central Offices will operate with limited coverage on Friday, June 30 and will be closed on Monday July 3, 2023 for the Canada Day statutory holiday. Regular hours will resume July 4 at 8:30 am (EDT).
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:
Late-breaking results for the IND.227 trial were presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The Phase III international study evaluated the use of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab combined with platinum-pemetrexed chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic pleural mesothelioma.
A Phase III Randomized Study of Nivolumab (Opdivo) or Brentuximab Vedotin (Adcetris) plus AVD in Patients (age >/= 12 Years) with Newly Diagnosed Advanced Stage Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma
A simple hysterectomy with pelvic node dissection is a safe treatment option for women with low-risk early-stage cervical cancer and may help improve quality of life, according to results from the CX5/SHAPE study, an international phase III clinical trial led by the Canadian Cancer Trials Group in collaboration with The Gynecological Cancer InterGroup (GCIG)
MAC14 (ECOG-ACRIN E2108) A Randomized Phase III Trial of the Value of Early Local Therapy for the Intact Primary Tumor in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer has been permanently closed.
Rational: The primary tumor might be a source of re-seeding of distant sites and therefore elimination of this source of metastasizing cells by early local therapy may be of benefit.
NET RETREAT the CCTG NE1 trial has recently opened in North America looking to compare retreatment of Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy versus standard treatment in patients with metastatic midgut neuroendocrine tumours. The drug being studied is a new type of drug approved for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) that has been shown to shrink tumours in many people and seems promising, but it is not clear if receiving this drug again can offer better results than standard treatment.