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Category: Group updates
New - CCTG Centre Support Program

Over the last six months, Centre Representatives and Contact CRAs at Canadian CCTG participating centres have been asked to share some of the challenges they’ve been experiencing around patient accrual and trial activations. This has included a Virtual Road Show of six 90-minute regional sessions and two surveys to supplement Road Show discussions and attempt to drill down on specific issues impacting accrual and trial activations, including around funding that may be impacting centres’ ability and capacity to activate and enroll patients to trials. 

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honoured with the Order of Canada
Congratulations to Dr. Vicki Baracos on her recent appointment to the Order of Canada. Vickie's research has transformed our understanding of cachexia, a debilitating syndrome that causes rapid weight and muscle loss in patients with advanced-stage cancer, leaving them with a skin-and-bones appearance. Read More

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Category: Publications
Publication: CRC6
CRC6: Improved Survival With Adjuvant Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibition in PIK3CA-Activated Stage III Colon Cancer: CALGB/SWOG 80702 (Alliance)
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Category: Trials
CCTG SC29 trial opens in Canada, researchers will be evaluating stereotactic body radiotherapy for palliative pain management

The Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) has now activated the symptom control trial SC29 evaluating high precision stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to conventional palliative radiotherapy (CRT) for patients with advanced cancer and a painful non-spine bone metastasis. SBRT represents a high dose treatment typically offered in the curative cancer setting; however, its role as a palliative treatment to improve pain for these patients is unknown. 

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CCTG Pharmacy Network seeking pharmacy representation
The CCTG Pharmacy Network is actively seeking pharmacy representation for: Pharmacist Representative for the Lung Committee and Pharmacist Representatives for the Steering Group a 2nd Ontario Rep Read More

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Category: Group updates
Request for Applications: Patient Representatives Committee Chair

The Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) is requesting applications for the volunteer position of Chair of the Patient Representative Committee. 

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Canadian Platform to Investigate Primary and Acquired Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy (CAN-PIVOT)

Immunotherapy is an innovative type of cancer treatment that harnesses the patient's own immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. In the last decade, the use of immunotherapy has increased exponentially, and it is now applied as the treatment of choice in many different cancer types. This popularity comes from the remarkable results seen in some patients treated with immunotherapy, which can lead to a cure in some cases and significantly prolong patient lives in others.

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Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network and Canadian Cancer Trials Group partner pan-Canadian projects

A new partnership between the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network (MOHCCN) and the Canadian Clinical Trials Group (CCTG) will support three pan-Canadian research teams aiming to better understand how immunotherapies can best be used to increase survival, reduce toxicities and improve quality of life for cancer patients in Canada.

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