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Closed to Accrual: CO27
Please be advised that the CCTG CO27 Phase III, Randomised, International Trial Comparing mFOLFIRINOX Triplet Chemotherapy to mFOLFOX for High-Risk Stage III Colon Cancer in Adjuvant Setting has closed to accrual having met the accrual target.
The primary objective for the study is 3 year Disease Free Survival (DFS) Secondary Objectives: 2 year DFS, Overall Survival, safety of study treatment.
 
For more information please visit the CCTG CO27 mem
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Category: Group updates
Canada Day Long Weekend Closures

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).

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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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Category: Publications
CX5 | SHAPE trial demonstrates that reduced radicality of surgical intervention can improve quality of life for patients

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)

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Category: Publications

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.

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Study results pave the way for a new standard of care for advanced-stage hodgkin 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

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Category: Publications
PR13 Radiation Therapy After Radical Prostatectomy: Analysis of Toxicity by Dose-Fractionation in the RADICALS-RT Trial and Contact Days Associated With Cancer Treatments in the CCTG LY12 Trial Read More

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Permanent Trial Closure: MAC14

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.

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