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Stay informed about the latest cancer research trials, including the Add-Asprin, IROC, Pre-Empt, and PRIM studies. Learn about ongoing recruitment efforts, challenges faced, and upcoming trial deadlines.
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Trials Update Connie ShiridzinomwaUrology Research Nurse
Recruiting trials • Add-Asprin • IROC • Pre-Empt • PRIM
Recruiting Trials • Add-aspirin A phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial assessing the effects of aspirin on disease recurrence and survival after primary therapy in common non-metastatic solid tumours. • Recruiting areas, gastro, prostate and colorectal • Target 30 end of recruitment January 2021 • Recruited 24 • Recruitment challenges: Uptake decrease following media
Recruiting trials • IROC • A phase III multicentre randomised controlled trial to compare the efficacy of Robotically Assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC) and intracorporeal urinary diversion with Open Radical Cystectomy (ORC) in patients with bladder cancer • Trust target 15 end of recruitment Nov 2018 • Recruited 12 • Challenges: Large catchment area network patients not prepared to come back for follow-up visits.
Recruiting Trials • Pre-EMPT: The Prostate cancer – Exercise and Metformin Trial (Pre-EMpT) is organised by the National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre (Nutrition), which is funded by the National Institute for Health Research and is a partnership between the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol. • Target 183, end date March 2020 • Recruited 6, all in surgery • Recruitment challenges: Slow up take, people already on Metformin, difficult pathway for radiotherapy and AS
Recruiting trials • PRIM: Prostate Health Index (PHI)- to Refine prostate Imaging by MRI (PRIM): • Target 100, end of recruitment August 2019 • Recruited from 28 • No challenges at present
Trials in follow-up • POUT (close date Dec 2021) • Boxit (close date Dec 2018) • Radicals (close date 2031) • Source (follow-up until progression) • MASTER (closing date Dec 2019)
Studies in set-up • JANSSEN: Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 3 Study of Apalutamide in Subjects with High-risk, Localized or Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer Who are Candidates for Radical Prostatectomy • HAARP:(Newcastle) Home Assessment of urinary voiding and storage function before and After Radical Prostatectomy for prostate cancer: setting patient expectations (The HAARP study) • Neurosafe : (UCL) A single blinded, multi‐centre, feasibility study to evaluate the ability to randomise men with prostate cancer into a trial comparing NeuroSAFE Robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP) to standard Robotic assisted radical prostatectomy(RALP).
Studies in set up • CamProbe: ( Cambridge)Developing a safer and simple device for local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsies • Gap 4 Interval: (Movember)difficulties in setting this study up include delivery of the exercise intervention, work is ongoing to try to resolve this.