Publications
NET RETREAT the CCTG NE1 trial has recently opened in North America looking to compare retreatment of Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy versus standard treatment in patients with metastatic midgut neuroendocrine tumours.
Master Screening and Reassessment Protocol (MSRP) for Tier Advancement in the NCI MYELOMATCH Clinical Trials
Low and Anaplastic Grade Glioma Umbrella Study of Molecular Guided Therapies (LUMOS2)
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Excision And Observation Vs Chemoradiotherapy For Early Rectal Cancer. The NEO-RT Trial
OptimICE-pCR: De-escalation of Therapy in Early-Stage TNBC Patients who Achieve pCR after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy
A Phase III Randomized Study of Nivolumab (Opdivo) or Brentuximab Vedotin (Adcetris) plus AVD in Patients (age >/= 12 Years) with Newly Diagnosed Advanced Stage Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma
MRD Driven Study of Venetoclax + Chemotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Younger Patients with Intermediate Risk AML
Novel Therapeutics in Younger Patients with High-Risk AML (MM1YA-S01)
Eradicating MRD in patients with AML prior to Stem Cell Transplant (ERASE)
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
NEoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal scc vs Definitive chemoradiotherapy with salvage Surgery as needed (NEEDS Trial)
A new nation-wide study examines how COVID-19 is impacting cancer patients and survivors
March 12, 2021 By Jennifer Friesen
There’s no question that 2020 was a challenging year. Today, the effects of COVID-19 continue to echo around the world, impacting people’s lives, livelihoods and social connections.
In addition to navigating all this global uncertainty, an estimated 225,000 Canadians also faced a cancer diagnosis last year.
Evaluating the Indirect Costs of Care Associated with Salvage Chemotherapy for Relapsed and Refractory Aggressive-Histology Lymphoma: A Subset Analysis of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) LY12 Clinical Trial" has been published in Current Oncology and is available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1718-7729/28/2/119
CommNETs hosted a virtual research workshop 10, 11, 16 and 17 February 2021 including a main conference event and five satellite project working group sessions. Thanks to the strong engagement of CommNETs collaborators, progress was made for planned work on existing projects and advancement of new ideas. CommNETs relies on the commitment of colleagues and partners to connect and lead research, and the continued collective effort of this group was evident through the excellent participation at the 2021 Virtual Research Workshop.
It is official we are going virtual so save the dates April 22 – 25!
Two new fellowship opportunities from the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer: Glaxo Smith Kline Clinical Research Fellowship in Medical Oncology - Gynecologic Malignancies and the Miller Mindell Fellowship Gynecologic Oncology Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Tricia Cottrell, a CCTG Senior Investigator, has been awarded $872,86 to support the IND227 study from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall Project Competition.
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma is rare and deadly form of cancer. Patients do not respond well to the current standard of care. However, there have been some positive results using immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is a new way of treating cancer that “turns on” an individual’s anticancer immune response.
Congratulations to Dr. Annette Hay, a Senior Investigator with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group and Dr. Matthew Cheung, Hematologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Together they received an additional $100,000 in bridge funding in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2020 competition matching funds awarded in the spring from this program designed to capture and support ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related knowledge in Canada.
