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Category: Group updates

The Canadian Cancer Trials Group is seeking nominations for the 2020 Recognition Awards honouring individuals who have contributed significantly to the mission and activities of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group.

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The Canadian Cancer Trials Group is actively seeking CRA representatives from Canadian Member sites to sit on the Genitourinary Disease Site Committee Executives as well as Supportive Care Committee.

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The 2020 CCTG Annual Spring Meeting of Participants will be here before you know it! Make sure that you save the date: May 1 - 3, Chelsea Hotel, Toronto.
 
The Canadian Cancer Trials Group Annual Spring Meeting of Participants represents a major gathering of the Canadian oncology community where trials that cover the spectrum of cancer treatment are designed and reviewed.
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Category: Office of the Director

As 2020 begins, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the hard work and accomplishments of our network of researchers and collaborators, both nationally and internationally, over the past year.

This year we supported 67 ongoing trials while working with our scientific network to activate 15 new trials of which 10 are being led by CCTG. This includes the IND234 trial that opened three new treatment arms this year—IND234 is the first trial to evaluate a precision medicine approach for patients with advanced prostate cancer using liquid biopsies for genomic testing.

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Category: Publications
The most recent CCTG general review publications.
 
Xu Y, Schulman S, Dowlatshahi D, Holbrook AM, Simpson CS, Shepherd LE, Wells PS, Giulivi A, Gomes T, Mamdani M, Frymire E, Khan S, Johnson AP. Healthcare resource utilization and costs among patients with direct oral anticoagulant or warfarin-related major bleeding.
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Category: Publications
PR17 (ENZAMET) featured in ASCO's Clinical Cancer Advances 2020

ENZAMET | CCTG PR17 (NCT02446405) study has been highlighted by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2020 annual report as a major advance in cancer treatment. The results were first presented at ASCO 2019, the trial demonstrated that hormone therapy with a drug called enzalutamide can improve the survival of some men with advanced, hormone‐sensitive prostate cancer.

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Category: Publications
PR17 - Randomised Phase III Trial of Enzalutamide in First Line Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Metastatic Prostate Cancer: ENZAMET.
MEC4 - Randomized Phase II Study Comparing the MET Inhibitor Cabozantinib to Temozolomide/Dacarbazine in Ocular Melanoma.
IND205 - A Phase II Study of PX-866 in Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC).
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The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) is excited to launch the CCS Emerging Scholar Award program, aimed at establishing and advancing promising early career scientists and clinician scientists from across Canada with a focused commitment to undertaking cancer research. Through the CCS Emerging Scholar Award program, early career investigators will develop their cancer research programs in Canada and pursue important scientific advances of the highest quality and potential for impact.
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