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• Trial updates  Latest recruitment figures for CTNZ trials as of 16 May 2012
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Trial updates as of 16 May 2012

Trial name	No. of patients in trial	Type of Cancer
SOLD	79	Adjuvant breast cancer
ReCharge	197	All cancers Closed to recruitment
SIRFLOX	70	Advanced colorectal cancer with non-resected liver metastases
LONGCYP	45	Adjuvant and advanced GI cancers
GBM DCV TMZ	6	Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme

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Coming events

Event date	Event name
20 - 23 May 2012	SCT 33rd Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency Miami USA
1 - 5 June 2012	ASCO Annual 2012 Meeting McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois USA
27 - 30 June 2012	ESMO 14th World Congress on GI Cancer Barcelona Spain
17 - 18 August 2012	Australasian NET Meeting Auckland
19 - 23 August 2012	ISCB 2012 Conference Bergen Norway
23 - 24 August 2012	NZACRes Conference Auckland
6 - 8 September 2012	AGITG 14th Annual Scientific Meeting Sofitel Wentworth Sydney

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News

• Welcome to new CTNZ staff members - Katy Wiessing (PIPER Data Manager) & Donna Guy (SIRFLOX Coordinator)  Just added
• ReCharge is now closed to recruitment

CTNZ newsletter - April 2012(198.3KB PDF)

Funding announcement for research into colorectal cancer(80.0KB PDF)

Inquiry into improving New Zealand’s environment to support innovation through clinical trials(304.9KB PDF)

CTNZ offices are now located at Boyle Building 505, Level 1(535.8KB PDF)

CTNZ newsletter - August 2011(111.0KB PDF)

Recent CTNZ publication in NZMJ - The colorectal cancer patients’ journey: the Auckland region(145.6KB PDF)

The final report to the Australian Government of the Clinical Trials Action Group - Clinically competitive: Boosting the business of clinical trials(542.9KB PDF)

• This report is the culmination of six months of discussion, debate, consultation, research and deliberation by a team dedicated to the cause of strengthening and improving the Australian clinical trials environment. The report (link above), was made available in March 20111

Report published by The Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) - A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research(1.8MB PDF)

• In May 2010 the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) was invited by the UK Government to review the regulation and governance of health research involving human participants, their tissue or their data. The report (link above), was made available in January 2011.

Read the Cancer Trials New Zealand submission to the parliamentary select committee inquiry into improving New Zealand's environment to support innovation through clinical trial(92.8KB PDF)

• Submissions to the parliamentary select committee inquiry into improving New Zealand's environment to support innovation through clinical trial are now available to view online at www.parliament.nz

Read all previous CTNZ newsletters and other news

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