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CCTG at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium #SABCS22

The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is an annual event cosponsored by the AACR and UT Health San Antonio’s Mays Cancer Center. The meeting hosts about 10,000 clinicians and scientists from all over the world and is the largest and most prestigious scientific gathering on breast cancer research. This international scientific symposium allows for the important interactions and exchanges between basic scientists and clinicians devoted to improved diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

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CCTG at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition

American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition is the world’s most comprehensive hematology event of the year. ASH is a professional society concerned with the causes and treatments of blood disorders.

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The Roster Interface Program & Participants List Environment (Ripple) is a single electronic system which permits:

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CCTG is actively seeking CRA representatives from Canadian Member sites to sit on Disease Site Committee Executives as well as the CCTG CRA Executive Committee. Read More

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Canadian Cancer Statistics provides comprehensive surveillance statistics on cancer in Canada. The full publication is produced every second year and includes detailed statistics on incidence, mortality and survival by sex, age group, geographic region and time period for 20+ cancer types.

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Three new publications: CRC6 Combining tumor deposits with the number of lymph node metastases to improve the prognostic accuracy in stage III colon cancer: a post hoc analysis of the CALGB/SWOG 80702 phase III study, CLC2 Adverse event burden in older patients with CLL receiving bendamustine plus rituximab or ibrutinib regimens, MAC20 The Breast Cancer Weight Loss trial: A description and evidence for the lifestyle intervention. Read More



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Sadly we are informing everyone that CCTG Patient Representative Hamer-Wilson passed away last weekend. She was a vocal champion for clinical trials and lung cancer research who has supported the CCTG Lung Disease site committee since 2018. Jill will be greatly missed by our community and by those supporting lung cancer advocacy in Canada.
 
Judy Needham the CCTG Patient Representative Committee Chair shared her thoughts, "This is a tremendous loss for us, her family and the entire lung cancer community.
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Everolimus with or without bevacizumab in advanced pNET: CALGB 80701
 
This randomized phase II study demonstrated that the addition of bevacizumab to everolimus is associated with higher tumor response rates and improved progression-free survival in patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. The higher rate of treatment-associated adverse events associated with the combination of bevacizumab and everolimus compared to everolimus alone precluded further investigation of this combination.
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