Publications
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.
RAINBO: Refining Adjuvant treatment IN endometrial cancer Based On molecular features. The MMRD-GREEN trial
Paclitaxel and Ramucirumab +/- Zanidatamab in HER2 Positive Advanced Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma
PET Response Adapted Design Comparing ABVD +/- ISRT with A2VD +/- ISRT in Patients with Stage IA/IIA Hodgkin Lymphoma (RADAR)
Ibrutinib Combination Therapy in Transplant Ineligible Individuals with Newly Diagnosed Primary CNS Lymphoma
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
MRD Driven Study of Venetoclax + Chemotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Younger Patients with Intermediate Risk AML
Master Screening and Reassessment Protocol (MYELOMATCH) for the NCI myeloMATCH clinical trials
Novel Therapeutics in Younger Patients with High-Risk AML (MM1YA-S01)
Eradicating MRD in patients with AML prior to Stem Cell Transplant (ERASE)
Tusamitamab Ravtansine (Tusa) Vs Investigator Choice in CEACAM5+ NSCLC After the Failure of Standard of Care Systemic Therapy
Low and Anaplastic Grade Glioma Umbrella Study of Molecular Guided Therapies (LUMOS2)
Results from a phase III international study (IND.227) were recently published in The Lancet and evaluated the use of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab combined with platinum-pemetrexed chemotherapy. Researchers conclude that as a first-line treatment for patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic pleural mesothelioma, pembrolizumab plus platinum-pemetrexed chemotherapy represents a new treatment option for patients. “By adding pembrolizumab to platinum-pemetrexed chemotherapy the study demonstrated a significantly improved overall survival, progression-free survival and objective response rates compared to the chemotherapy alone and represents a new treatment option for patients with advanced pleural mesothelioma,” Dr. Penelope Bradbury, Chair of the CCTG Lung Disease Site Committee, a medical oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and one of the highest accruing investigators on the study.
The results of CCTG BR36 trial, recently published in the journal Nature Medicine, suggest that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analyses could be used as an early marker of immunotherapy response and may help guide therapy.
The CCTG SC28 SEAMLESS study is now open in Canada for anyone who has completed their primary cancer treatment, to learn mindfulness meditation on an app and see if it helps to improve stress and well being.
The CIHR has announced funding, $1,828,350 over 6 years, for the CCTG PR25 trial, a metastatic prostate cancer personalized medicine study investigating the addition platinum-based chemotherapy to standard of care chemotherapy to evaluate markers believed to predict benefit.
The CCTG NE2 trial has been awarded $260,101 in the Spring CIHR grants announcement to support Canadian participation in the STOPNET clinical trial international trial, a Randomized Study of Cessation of Somatostatin Analogues after Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Mid-Gut Neuroendocrine Tumours.
CIHR has announced $3,056,176 in funding over 5 years, for the TACtful trial investigating a novel cell therapy using the immune system to treat people with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Excision And Observation Vs Chemoradiotherapy For Early Rectal Cancer. The NEO-RT Trial
NEEDS: NEoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma versus Definitive chemoradiotherapy with salvage Surgery as needed)
Comparing Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) to Standard Palliative Radiation Treatment (ON-TASC Study)
CALMS: Combination Therapy with Luspatercept in Lower Risk MDS
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Combination with Immune Checkpoint Blockade Compared to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Alone in Patients with Advanced Melanoma
Fixed Duration vs Continuous Daratumumab in Transplant Ineligible Older Adults with Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma
STOPNET - Cessation of Somatostatin Analogues after Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Med-Gut Tumours
Androgen Suppression Combined with Elective Nodal Irradiation and Dose Escalated Prostate Treatment (ASCENDE-SBRT)
Platinum and Taxane Chemo in Met Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients with Alterations in DNA Damage Response Genes
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy to Conventional Palliative Radiotherapy for Painful Non-Spine Bone Metastases
Role of Antibiotic Therapy or Immunoglobulin On iNfections in hAematoLogy Platform Trial - RATIONAL-PT
STRatIfication of Vulvar squamous cell carcinoma by HPV and p53 status to guide Excision: STRIVE Study
OptimICE-pCR: De-escalation of Therapy in Early-Stage TNBC Patients who Achieve pCR after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy
A Biomarker Sub-study of the CCTG ME.13 Duration of Anti PD-1 Therapy in Metastatic Melanoma STOP-GAP Trial
NET RETREAT: 177Lutetium- DOTATATE Retreatment vs. Everolimus in Metastatic/unresectable Midgut NET
The SEAMLESS Study: A randomized trial of a SmartphonE App-based MindfuLnEss intervention for cancer SurvivorS
CCTG is currently seeking applications for a Patient Representative for the Hematology Disease Site Committee
CCTG would like to welcome our new Patient Representative, Catherine Wreford who will be supporting the Brain Cancer Disease Site Committee. Catherine is a professional dancer and actress who was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2013, a little over a month after giving birth to her second child, Catherine was diagnosed with incurable anaplastic astrocytoma (a malignant brain tumour).
A new CCTG national study has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Genome Canada to explore the ethical questions raised with emerging cancer technologies like CAR-T cell therapy.
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.
Translational Lung Cancer Research 10: 826 - 838, 21 FFung AS;Karimi M;Michiels S;Seymour L;Brambilla E;Le-Chevalier T;Soria JC;Kratzke R;Graziano SL;Devarakonda S;Govindan R;Tsao MS;Shepherd FA;Collaborative Group obotL;
N Engl J Med 388: 2159 - 2170, 2023Eskander RN;Sill MW;Beffa L;Moore RG;Hope JM;Musa FB;Mannel R;Shahin MS;Cantuaria GH;Girda E;Mathews C;Kavecansky J;Leath CA;Gien LT;Hinchcliff EM;Lele SB;Landrum LM;Backes F;O'Cearbhaill RE;Al Baghdadi T;Hill EK;Thaker PH;John VS;Welch S;Fader AN;Powell MA;Aghajanian C;
International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics , 2023Petersen PM;Cook AD;Sydes MR;Clarke N;Cross W;Kynaston H;Logue J;Neville P;Payne H;Parmar MKB;Parulekar W;Persad R;Saad F;Stirling A;Parker CC;Catton C;
The Oncol , 2023Gupta A;Hay AE;Crump M;Djurfeldt MS;Zhu L;Cheung MC;Shepherd LE;Chen BE;Booth CM;
N Engl J Med 388: 1645 - 1656, 2023Partridge AH;Niman SM;Ruggeri M;Peccatori FA;Azim HA;Colleoni M;Saura C;Shimizu C;Sætersdal AB;Kroep JR;Mailliez A;Warner E;Borges VF;Amant F;Gombos A;Kataoka A;Rousset-Jablonski C;Borstnar S;Takei J;Lee JE;Walshe JM;Ruíz-Borrego M;Moore HCF;Saunders C;Bjelic-Radisic V;Susnjar S;Cardoso F;Smith KL;Ferreiro T;Ribi K;Ruddy K;Kammler R;El-Abed S;Viale G;Piccart M;Korde LA;Goldhirsch A;Gelber RD;Pagani O;
J Thoracic Oncol 18: e68 - e69, 2023Piccirillo MC;Chu Q;Bradbury P;Seymour L;
Cancers 15: 1823, 2023Karamouza E;Glasspool RM;Kelly C;Lewsley LA;Carty K;Kristensen GB;Ethier JL;Kagimura T;Yanaihara N;Cecere SC;You B;Boere IA;Pujade-Lauraine E;Ray-Coquard I;Proust-Lima C;Paoletti X;
Supportive Care in Cancer 31: 256, 2023Mian H;Ringash J;Meyer R;Hay AE;Shepherd L;Djurfeldt M;Winter JN;Sussman J;Pater J;Chen BE;Prica A;
