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Phase III Team Award for Intergroup-Led Trials ME15 Team Odette Cancer Centre

The Phase III Team Award for Intergroup-Led Trials was presented to the ME15 Team at Odette Cancer Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) at the CCTG Spring Meeting this weekend. The team members include, Dr. Frances Wright (QI), Roxana Marmolejo, Christina Siwak.

"We are absolutely thrilled to be the recipients of this CCTG Phase III Team Award.  We have a fantastic team who work extremely hard to provide our patients with the option of participating in this potentially practice-changing trial, MelMart, the melanoma margins trial."

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Ralph Meyer Phase III Program Young Investigator Award was presented to Dr. Hira Mian

CCTG is honoured to recognize Dr. Hira Mian with the Ralph Meyer Phase III Program Young Investigator Award which is presented to a young investigator who worked on a Phase III trial and contributed significantly to the conduct the trial.

“I am thrilled to receive this young investigator award which is really on behalf of all my colleagues both at McMaster, CCTG and throughout Canada. Thank you team and looking forward to the many years of collaboration.”

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Closed to Accrual: MA40

The MA40 trial, a double-blind placebo controlled randomized phase III trial of fulvestrant and ipatasertib as treatment for advanced HER-2 negative and estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer following progression on first line CDK 4/6 inhibitor and aromatase inhibitor has closed to further accrual as the accrual target of 250 study participants enrolled. 

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Trial closure:  BLC5
The BLC5 (Alliance A032001): MAIN-CAV: Phase III Randomized Trials of Maintenance Cabozantinib and Avelumab vs Maintenance Avelumab After First-Line Platinum Based Chemotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Urothelial Cancer Trial has permanently closed.
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Welcome to Patient Representative Michelle Audoin

Please join the Patient Representative Committee in welcoming Michelle Audoin who will be supporting the Breast Disease Site committee.

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CCT2024 Spring Meeting - The Plenary Session at Spring Meeting is on Friday May 3, 2024 from 4:30 - 5:30.
CCTG is pleased to announce the the line up for one of the most informed events at the #CCT2024 Spring Meeting - The Plenary Session at Spring Meeting is on Friday May 3, 2024 from 4:30 - 5:30. Each of the talks highlight important CCTG trials and is open to registered participants attending the meeting in Toronto from May 3-5, 2024. This is a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada accredited session. Thank you to the Co-Chairs: Dr Mariam Jafri, Dr Joe Pater, Dr Harriet Richardson for organizing this session. Read More

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2024 CCTG Annual Spring Meeting is less than 3 weeks away!
2024 CCTG Annual Spring Meeting is less than 3 weeks away! If you have not registered or requested an Invitation, please do so NOW. Online pre-registration closes April 19 Read More

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Ernst Wertheim Award presented to Dr Marie Plante

At the recent annual meeting of the Austrian Working Group for Gynaecological Oncology in the Austrian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics the Ernst Wertheim Award was presented to Dr Marie Plante, the CCTG CX5 study lead and Gynecologic Oncologist at CHU de Quebec, Canada.

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