2018 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OTHER NEWS WORKSHOPS ANZUP’s Concept Development Workshops (CDWs) continue to serve as a great vehicle for bringing people together, scanning the horizon for new opportunities, and brainstorming proposals with a view to developing fully-fledged ANZUP trials. This year ANZUP once again supported CDWs across the four disease subcommittees. Although concepts can be brought to the various subcommittees at any time of the year, the workshops are an increasingly important part of ANZUP’s core business and most new concepts are discussed at one in the first instance. The invaluable feedback enables research to be further developed into high quality, innovative proposals.
IAN DAVIS AND MARTIN STOCKLER AT THE BLADDER CDW
Renal 11 April 2018
Germ Cell 30 April 2018
The Renal Concept Development Workshop was held in Sydney with a wonderful multidisciplinary panel including CAP members who contributed to the day’s discussion.
The Germ Cell Concept Development Workshop was also held in Sydney with 19 members attending across multiple disciplines including medical oncologists, psychologists, statisticians and clinical trial operations staff.
Seven proposals were presented at the workshop with one already progressing to discussions with a potential funding partner. If successful it is planned to submit to Ethics later this year.
Discussions focused on potential concepts to be explored, key topics including hypogonadism in testis cancer and updates on potential and current collaborations. There was also a demonstration of the iTestis National GCT Database.
SAUSAGE ROLLS AND SWOT ANALYSIS AT THE RENAL CDW
Bladder 20 April 2018 The Bladder Concept Development Workshop was held in Sydney with a superb line-up of multidisciplinary clinical experts in attendance including surgical and medical oncologists, nurses, statisticians, health economists, psychologists and clinical trial operations. Nine proposals were presented at the workshop, including a penile cancer concept. The day concluded with a brainstorming session with everyone contributing to the discussion, highlighting the truly collaborative nature of the ANZUP CDWs. 20 | ANZUP UPdate Spring 2018
GERM CELL CDW
