ANZUP’s History

The Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP Cancer Trials Group Ltd, “ANZUP”) became a company limited by guarantee on 9 October 2008 . The official launch of ANZUP was held on 20th March 2009 in Sydney .

ANZUP is a cooperative and multidisciplinary organisation including collaborations within Australia, New Zealand and international collaborations . ANZUP was formed as a national cooperative clinical trials group encompassing all urologic cancers (prostate, kidney, bladder/urothelial, testis and other related tumours) . ANZUP brings together multiple professional disciplines and interested people to perform high quality clinical trials in urologic cancers and to facilitate basic and translational research in urologic cancers .

ANZUP is primarily funded by Cancer Australia through its Support for Clinical Trials program . The current grant around expires June 2013 .

ANZUP currently has members from Australia and New Zealand from all relevant professional medical, nursing, allied health, basic science and other disciplines . Our Consumer Advisory Panel (CAP) provides a mechanism for advice to be offered across all ANZUP research activities as well as ensuring community engagement .