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Study results suggest that a new pancreatic cancer treatment become standard practice world-wide

Newly released clinical trial results show a substantial increase in survival rates for pancreatic cancer patients who received a four-drug chemotherapy combination known as mFOLFIRINOX after surgery. The randomized phase III clinical trial was sponsored by the academic cancer research groups of UNICANCER, in Paris, France and the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG).

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CCTG MA.39 TAILOR RT: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF REGIONAL RADIOTHERAPY IN BIOMARKER LOW RISK NODE POSITIVE BREAST CANCER has been centrally activated in Canada

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PNC.1 (EA8134), InPACT: International Penile Advanced Cancer Trial, has been centrally activated in Canada.

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Citation for a MA27 publication

Patient-reported predictors of early treatment discontinuation: treatment-related symptoms and health-related quality of life among postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer randomized to anastrozole or exemestane on NCIC Clinical Trials Group (CCTG) MA.27 (E1Z03).

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500 Patients randomized on the SHAPE study!

Congratulations to Dr. Dounia Skalli and the team at centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil, France for enrolling the 500th patient to the SHAPE study! On behalf of the SHAPE trial committee, we would like to thank you for your tremendous and unwavering support of our trial.

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The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ottawa Hospital are currently enrolling women in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare conventional mammography (2-D) to the newer digital tomosynthesis method (3-D).The large scale North American study was developed by the US based ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) coordinating the trial in Canada (more national sites will be opening the trial over the next several months).

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On behalf of the CRA Executive Committee, we hope that those of you who were able to attend the CRA session at Spring Meeting this year found it informative.
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MA.27 (NCT00066573) - A Randomized Phase III Trial of Exemestane Versus Anastrozole in Postmenopausal Women with Receptor Positive Primary Breast Cancer publication:
 
Ho MF, Lummertz da Rocha E, Zhang C, Ingle J, Goss P, Shepherd L, Kubo M, Wang L, Li H, Weinshilboum R. TCL1A, a novel transcription factor and a co-regulator of NF-kB p65: SNP and estrogen-dependence (ONLINE).
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