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Citation for a MA27 publication

Patient-reported predictors of early treatment discontinuation: treatment-related symptoms and health-related quality of life among postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer randomized to anastrozole or exemestane on NCIC Clinical Trials Group (CCTG) MA.27 (E1Z03).

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The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ottawa Hospital are currently enrolling women in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare conventional mammography (2-D) to the newer digital tomosynthesis method (3-D).The large scale North American study was developed by the US based ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) coordinating the trial in Canada (more national sites will be opening the trial over the next several months).

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500 Patients randomized on the SHAPE study!

Congratulations to Dr. Dounia Skalli and the team at centre hospitalier intercommunal de Créteil, France for enrolling the 500th patient to the SHAPE study! On behalf of the SHAPE trial committee, we would like to thank you for your tremendous and unwavering support of our trial.

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On behalf of the CRA Executive Committee, we hope that those of you who were able to attend the CRA session at Spring Meeting this year found it informative.
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MA.27 (NCT00066573) - A Randomized Phase III Trial of Exemestane Versus Anastrozole in Postmenopausal Women with Receptor Positive Primary Breast Cancer publication:
 
Ho MF, Lummertz da Rocha E, Zhang C, Ingle J, Goss P, Shepherd L, Kubo M, Wang L, Li H, Weinshilboum R. TCL1A, a novel transcription factor and a co-regulator of NF-kB p65: SNP and estrogen-dependence (ONLINE).
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This Friday is the CCTG 2018 Annual Spring Meeting of Participants

This Friday is the CCTG 2018 Annual Spring Meeting of Participants

The Canadian Cancer Trials Group Annual Spring Meeting of Participants represents a major gathering of the Canadian oncology community where trials that cover the spectrum of cancer treatment are designed and reviewed. Traditionally, the meeting includes discussions of trials that are in development, under conduct or have results to be shared.

Online registration has closed and on site registration will open Friday April 27 at the Chelsea Hotel.

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The Central Operations and Statistics Office located at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario has a job opening for a Safety Desk Team Leader

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  Ovarian Cancer Canada | Cancer de l'ovaire Canada

Ovarian Cancer Canada asks us to urge the government to fund ovarian cancer research in Canada

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