Cervical cancer awareness campaign looks for screening boost

This month will see the launch of Public Health England’s Cervical Cancer Awareness campaign, a nationwide initiative intended to increase t [...]

SUMMIT piques interest

The SUMMIT study has garnered widespread press attention this week, with chief investigator Professor Sam Janes making several media appeara [...]

Christmas Closure Dates

The CTC will be closed on Monday 24th, Tuesday 25th, Wednesday 26th, Monday 31st December 2018 and Tuesday 1st January 2019*. We will be ope [...]

CTC lung cancer trial presented in Toronto

The CTC’s TIMELY trial was presented last month at the annual IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer by Dr Adam Januszewski, clinical fellow [...]

100 patients give PEACE a chance

Last month saw the CTC’s PEACE study recruit its hundredth patient.Funded by Cancer Research UK, patients taking part in the pioneering stud [...]

CTC at European Haematology Association conference 2018

Amy Kirkwood, senior statistician at the Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre, reports back from this year's edition of the EHA c [...]

CTC celebrates 21st anniversary

The CTC celebrated its 21st Anniversary in style at the end of August at The Brewery. Director of the CTC, Professor Jonathan Ledermann, gav [...]

ARISTOTLE trial closes to recruitment

After almost seven years, and with the involvement of over 100 centres from across the UK, the CTC’s ARISTOTLE trial has closed to recruitme [...]

New ovarian cancer study at the CTC

The CTC has announced the opening of a new international ovarian cancer trial called ICON9, supported by Cancer Research UK and Astrazeneca. [...]

CTC runs successful course for CRM Phase I trials

The CTC's Graham Wheeler (pictured) and Helen Meadows have collaborated with staff from Leeds, Oxford, Birmingham and Glasgow CTUs to design [...]

CTC celebrates 21st anniversary

Director Jonathan Ledermann reflects on 21 years of the Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre: The Cancer Research UK and UCL Canc [...]

NOW BOOKING: training course for budding Chief Investigators

The University of Liverpool will host a 5-day training course in September aimed specifically at budding Chief Investigators.The North West [...]

UCL cancer trials to get £9m funding boost

Cancer Research UK is planning to invest nearly £9m over the next five years into research at the Cancer Research UK & UCL Cancer Trials Cen [...]

CTC opens its first trial in prostate cancer

This month saw the NEPTUNES trial open to recruitment at University College London Hospitals. NEPTUNES is looking at giving two immunotherap [...]

Just one cigarette a day increases risk of stroke and heart disease

An article published in the BMJ has suggested that even one-a-day smokers have a much greater risk of stroke and heart disease than those wh [...]

Successful MRC training course held for budding Chief Investigators

The MRC successfully ran its inaugural ‘How to Be a Good Chief Investigator’ workshop in Liverpool this month. Moving from the role of Princ [...]

New ovarian cancer drug based on UCL research

A new drug to delay the spread of ovarian cancer, which was developed from UCL research, has been licensed for use in the UK.Professor Jonat [...]

Trial shows new treatment option for advanced lung cancer patients

Positive results from the phase III FLAURA clinical trial show significant improvement in progression free survival in patients with EGFR-mu [...]

‘He inspired us’: brother shares experience of a cancer diagnosis in the family

The brother of a patient who took part in the CTC’s PEACE study has spoken about his family’s experience in an interview. Mark Sims, who was [...]

Trial coordinated by CTC pioneers new liver cancer treatment

Researchers from the UCL Cancer Institute and the specialist healthcare company BTG plc have begun the first clinical trial of an experiment [...]

GALLIUM findings published today

Today has seen findings from the GALLIUM trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.The study, which is investigating the treatm [...]

Lymphatic Cancer Awareness Week

This week (September 11-17) marks lymphatic cancer awareness week.Lymphoma is the fifth most common type of cancer in the UK, affecting the [...]

Blood Cancer Awareness Month

September will see a number of events taking place in aid of Blood Cancer Awareness month.Every year, around 34,000 people in the UK are dia [...]

CTC well represented at lymphoma conference

The 14th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma took place in Lugano, Switzerland in June, with the presence of the CTC’s RATHL tria [...]

First patient recruited for IDRIS trial

This month has seen a CTC study investigating the treatment of plasmacytoma recruit its first patient.IDRIS, a phase III trial funded by Can [...]

SCORAD III findings presented at ASCO conference

A study coordinated by the CRUK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre has shown that giving single dose radiotherapy is as effective as multi dose radi [...]

ABC-07 trial presented at AMMF conference

Last month saw the annual conference for the Alan Morement Memorial Fund (AMMF) take place in Stansted, UK, with some of the team behind ABC [...]

Trials community celebrates International Clinical Trials Day

Today marks International Clinical Trials Day, a global ACRP initiative intended to educate and inform the wider public about work being don [...]

CTC study is detecting lung cancer early

A study coordinated by the CRUK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre has been successful in detecting recurring lung cancers up to a year earlier than [...]

WATCH: CTC produces information videos for cervical cancer trial

The CRUK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre has produced three videos aimed at patients considering entering INTERLACE, a trial investigating the tr [...]

‘The Uninvited Guest’: read a cancer patient’s account of her experience on a clinical trial

A patient has published a blog documenting her time on INTERLACE, a clinical trial for the treatment of cervical cancer run by the CRUK & UC [...]

Statins do not benefit patients with lung cancer, new study shows

Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients, according to a new stu [...]

CTC staff attend BTOG

The annual conference for the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) took place in Dublin this January, with members of the CRUK & UCL CTC’s [...]

Landmark study provides insight into chemotherapy treatment for lung cancer patients

A research team, led by UCL, has published the results of a highly anticipated clinical trial comparing platinum and non-platinum chemothera [...]

Easter Closure Dates

The CTC will be closed on Friday 30 March and Monday 2 April for the Easter bank holiday. The CTC will be open with limited cover on Thursda [...]