Decoding Cancer: Multiple Myeloma
We are please to announce that the September Decoding Cancer event entitled:
‘New Hope in Multiple Myeloma Treatment’ will take place 6.30pm Thursday 8th September in the O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel , Dublin.
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Autumn Meetings
Friday 14th Oct 2016. The Gibson Hotel, Point Village, Dublin 1. 8.30 – 10.30am. StakeHolder Engagement Meeting
Shortage of trials is biggest barrier for patients
A study by the Medical Oncology Department at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, in association with Cancer Trials Ireland, has found that the biggest barrier to patients participating in cancer trials is the availability of suitable cancer trials.
Participants talk about cancer trials
Cancer Trials Ireland has launched a series of 6 shorts videos which involve people talking directly about their experience taking part in a cancer trial.
European breast cancer trial opens in Ireland
European breast cancer trial opens in Ireland. Hospitals in Dublin, Waterford, Galway, Cork and Limerick participating
Cancer Trials Ireland opens new breast cancer trial
Cancer Trials Ireland has today (Monday, 27 June 2016) announced that it has opened a cancer trial to test a new treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer which has not responded to currently available treatments.
The trial will test for the first time the use of the new drug copanlisib in combination with trastuzumab to treat advanced HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer which has progressed or recurred in patients during or following standard anti-HER2 treatment.
It is expected that up 34 patients will take part in the trial which will be conducted over the next 2-3 years in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital at a cost of approximately 750,000 euro.
Summer DSSG Digest available here
The Summer DSSG Digest contains a full digest of all our cancer trials that are currently open.
Please click here to download.
Irish research in world’s largest oncology meeting
65 abstracts that include Irish Cancer Researchers have been included in The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2016 Annual Meeting which occurs in Chicago on June 3-7.