Translational research is a key component of the EORTC strategy for placing the EORTC at the forefront of clinical and translational research with innovative trials.
Advances in therapeutic strategies have made the clinical picture much more complex.
Adult soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) have a relatively low incidence, approximately 10 390 new cases are reported each year in the United States, yet half of all patients with STS eventually die from the disease.
A conference on the Future of Independent Academic Clinical Research in Europe is being organized by the Royal Academies of Medicine of Belgium und
Building on the successes of the former ECCO and ESMO meeting, the first jointly organized Congress, ECCO 15 – ESMO 34, Berlin, September 21 – 24, 2009, marked an occasion of many firsts and a new phase and a new day for European oncology.
Twenty EORTC abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2010 ASCO Annual meeting to be held 4-8 June in Chicago, Illinois. A listing of these abstracts is given below.
On 8 February 2010 a multidisciplinary workshop entitled “Towards a Better Future for Pharmacovigilance in Clinical Trials” was held at EORTC Headquarters in Brussels. This workshop was organized by the EORTC and ECRIN on behalf of the Roadmap Initiative for Clinical Research in Europe. The main goal of the Roadmap Initiative is to work towards suggestions for improvements in potential legislation with the aim of facilitating the performance of clinical research for the benefit of patients and to increase the competitiveness of clinical research on the European level.
MINDACT (Microarray In Node-negative and 1 to 3 positive lymph node Disease may Avoid ChemoTherapy) is a large and complex trial expecting to recruit 6,000 patients in over 90 centers in 9 countries. MINDACT was designed to evaluate the added value of the 70-gene signature to traditional prognostic factors and determine whether the 70-gene signature could be used to predict response to prescribed adjuvant treatments for early breast cancer patients.
