CCTG has opened the anticipated international brain cancer study CCTG CE9 (LUMOS2) - joining forces with the Australian Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO) to make enrollment accessible to Canadian patients.
MODERN: An Integrated Phase 2/3 and Phase 3 Trial of MRD-Based Optimization of Adjuvant Therapy in Urothelial Cancer
Radiotherapy to Block (CURB2) Oligoprogression In Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Comparing Palliative Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy vs. Palliative Standard Radiotherapy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
LND101 for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Combination with Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Patients with Advanced Melanoma
The CCTG ES3 NEEDS international esophageal cancer clinical trial is now opened in Canada. The study is investigating whether delaying surgery for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus is as good as the current treatment.
Eradicating MRD in Patients with AML prior to Stem Cell Transplant (ERASE)
VIGOR: Vorasidenib as Maintenance Treatment after First-line Chemoradiotherapy in IDH-mutant Grade 2 or 3 Astrocytoma
Botensilimab + Balstilimab or Botensilimab Alone vs Best Supportive Care as Therapy in Chemo-refractory, Advanced, Colorectal Adenocarcinoma: The BATTMAN Trial
STRIDE (durvalumab + tremelimumab) with Lenvatinib vs STRIDE Alone in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (SLIDE-HCC)
CALMS: Combination Therapy with Luspatercept in Lower Risk MDS CTEP approval: 2024AUG27 (date of US Steering Committee Evaluation)
Lanreotide for the Prevention of Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula
CCTG would like to welcome Bill Richardson a new Patient Representative who will be working with the Head and Neck disease site committee. Bill is located in Calgary with a microbiologist background and has worked in government, private industry, teaching and later moved to IT spending 30 years in the Kinesiology Faculty at the University of Calgary.
The CCTG New Investigator Clinical Trials Course is fast approaching and has already reached the maximum registration. The course will be held August 3 – 5, 2022 in Kingston, Ontario to provide and facilitate investigator education and training designed to educate new investigators from across the country about the essentials of clinical trial conduct in the Canadian research environment.
CCTG MAC19 A Randomized Phase III Trial Evaluating the Role of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients (cT1 -3 N1) Who Have Positive Sentinel Lymph Node Disease After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy has closed to further accrual, as the accrual target has been met.
It was recently announced that ExCELLirate Canada has successfully been granted a Research Infrastructure award of $4,159,049 by the Ontario Research Fund for the Innovation Fund Project Grant "ExCELLirate Canada: Expanding CELL-based Immunotherapy Research Acceleration for Translation and Evaluation".
Following a comprehensive, year-long consultation with the CCTG network, leadership, partners, patient representatives, and staff the new strategic direction for CCTG is unveiled.
“Together, we set down and shared our scientific priorities and supporting activities, captured feedback from our members, patients, and stakeholders and used it to ensure we address the opportunities ahead to conduct trials that will meaningfully improve outcomes for patients with cancer,” said CCTG Director, Dr. Janet Dancey.
