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CCTG Recruiting for a Patient Representative Volunteer Role
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Welcoming new Patient Representative Haydn Bechthold

CCTG would like to welcome our new Patient Representative Haydn Bechthold who will be supporting the Gastrointestinal Disease Site Committee.

In 2021, at the age of 22, Haydn Bechthold received a stage 3C rectal cancer diagnosis, followed by the identification of Lynch syndrome. Having endured symptoms for over four years before his diagnosis, Haydn recognized the evident gaps in care for young adult cancer patients. This diagnosis abruptly halted his soccer career in Europe, yet it sparked a new passion for patient advocacy.

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CCTG is at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this week

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) takes place this year at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Centre, December 5-9, 2023. SABCS is an International scientific symposium for scientists and clinicians in breast cancer. The event is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease, to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers.

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BLC4 primary publication: Phase 2 Trial of Atezolizumab in Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive High-risk Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer.
 
Black PC, Tangen CM, Singh P, McConkey DJ, Lucia MS, Lowrance WT, Koshkin VS, Stratton KL, Bivalacqua TJ, Kassouf W, Porten SP, Bangs R, Plets M, Thompson IM, Lerner SP. SWOG S1605. European Urology 84: 536-544.
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CCTG will be presenting the following at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, December 9-12, 2023, in San Diego, California. ASH is the world's largest professional gathering of both clinicians and scientists around the world who are working to conquer blood diseases.


CCTG SC.26: Emotion and Symptom-Focused Engagement (EASE): A Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention for Individuals with Acute Leukemia

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Category: Trials
Trial closure:  MA38

Permanent trial closure of the MA38 trial: Randomized Phase II Study Comparing Two Different Schedules of Palbociclib plus Second Line Endocrine Therapy in Women with Estrogen Receptor Positive, HER2 Negative Advanced/Metastatic Breast Cancer.

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CCTG pleased to announce that the GA.4 study: A Randomized Phase II Study of Paclitaxel and Ramucirumab +/- Zanidatamab in HER2 Positive Advanced Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma has been centrally activated. 

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Welcome to Patient Representative Jasmine Heuring

A very warm welcome to Jasmine Heuring who has joined the CCTG Patient Representatives Committee and will be supporting the Adolescents & Young Adults and Sarcoma Disease Site Committees. Jasmine is from Winnipeg Manitoba and is a cancer advocate and healthcare analyst.

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