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ANZUP ANNUAL REPORT 2017
PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS Australian/New Zealand Partnerships and Collaborations ANZUP is proud of its collaborations and relationships with a wide range of research organisations.
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA)
International Partnerships and Collaborations: • Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
In March 2016 ANZUP and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) signed a formal agreement to improve access to clinical trials, pledging to work together to raise $1.5 million over three years to fund prostate clinical trials. Thanks to this partnership grant, ANZUP and PCFA are set to launch a landmark prostate cancer trial together in the second half of 2017.
• Canadian Cancer Trials Group
In addition, PCFA will continue to be a Platinum Sponsor of the ANZUP Annual Scientific Meeting and will host PCFA’s annual Prostate Cancer Specialist Nursing Conference in conjunction with the ASM.
• Medical Research Council (MRC) UK
We are most grateful to PCFA’s Chairman Mr Jim Hughes AM and CEO Associate Professor Anthony Lowe for their efforts in progressing this exciting new initiative.
• Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA)
• Cancer Trials Ireland • Children’s Oncology Group (COG) • European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) • Dana Faber Cancer Institute • Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC)
Other key relationships • Cancer Australia • Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) • USANZ
Cancer Cooperative Trials Groups (CCTGs)
• Cancer Councils
As well as running co-badged trials with other CCTGs, ANZUP is also a member of the Executive Officers Network (EON), which provides a forum for sharing resources and ideas that builds stronger links between the CCTGs. From this network, we have also established a Clinical Trials Consumer Network (CTCN).
• Movember • Kidney Health Australia
NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (CTC) at the University of Sydney ANZUP collaborates with CTC to conduct a number of our clinical trials to achieve quality processes on trial development and operations. We value the close working relationship we have with CTC and acknowledge and thank staff at CTC.
MARTIN STOCKLER, SCOTT WILLIAMS, IAN DAVIS, MARG MCJANNETT, SIMON CHOWDERY, OLWYN DEIGNAN AND PAUL KELLY AT THE ITSC MEETING
Centre for Biostatistics and Clinical Trials (BaCT) at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre We have also established a collaboration with BaCT to coordinate two of our ANZUP studies – a Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (PCR-MIB) study; and a newly funded nonclear cell renal carcinoma study (UNISoN). Based at Peter Mac, BaCT provides and coordinates statistical, regulatory and informatics support in the design, planning, conduct, analysis and reporting of clinical research studies.
PCFA NURSES AT THE 2016 PCFA ANZUP NURSES SESSION
