Liverpool Paediatric ECMC
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Liverpool is an Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer ( ITCC ) accredited centre, is part of the Adult and Paediatric Networks and has established close working links with other UK ITCC centres (particularly Leeds and Manchester ). It is well located for geographically distributed studies for the North of...
London - Institute of Cancer Research Paediatric ECMC
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The Royal Marsden (RM)’s 31-bed Oak Centre for Children and Young People opened at the Sutton site in September 2011 following a substantial £20 million new build, and is one of the largest comprehensive cancer centres for children and teenagers in Europe. Almost 600 inpatients and more than 5,000 day...
London - UCL/Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Paediatric ECMC
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UCL/Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is also a paediatric centre . GOSH and the teenage cancer unit at UCLH comprise a unified Principal Treatment Centre (PTC) for those diagnosed with cancer aged 0-19 yrs in North London, treating over 300 new patients a year. Both units have an established infrastructure...
Manchester Paediatric ECMC
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The Manchester paediatric ECMC is based at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) in Central Manchester. RMCH is also the lead centre for the paediatric network. RMCH is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK, and provides paediatric haematology and oncology services to Greater Manchester, Lancashire, South Cumbria,...
Newcastle Paediatric ECMC
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The Paediatric team is both part of the Adult Newcastle ECMC with a specific focus to run early phase clinical trials for adolescents and young adults (AYA) across both sites; and part of the national paediatric ECMC Network . It is also an accredited early phase clinical trials centre of...
Successful nursing in a Phase I environment training day
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The ECMC Research Nurse Network Group Steering Committee runs a training day for new early phase research nurses: Successful nursing in a Phase I environment . This training day is for research nurses who have been working in early phase cancer research for around 3 to 18 months. The aim...
Interview with Dr Natalie Cook, the new lead of the Manchester ECMC
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The new Lead of the Manchester ECMC talks to us about her career to date, balancing NHS service and clinical research commitments, precision medicine ... and the Enigma code.
Welcome back to Aoife Regan, the programme office head
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Aoife Regan has recently returned from maternity leave back to her position as Head of the ECMC Programme Office. Aoife reflects on what’s changed in the network while she’s been away, what she’s planning to focus on and the challenges to come.
Novel radiotherapy-drug combinations workshop leads to new paper
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In February 2018, Combinations Alliance supported a two day meeting organised by AACR, FDA, and ASTRO to build on the work done by the joint working group in their landmark paper published in 2016 to boost the number of novel drugs being successfully registered in combination with radiotherapy. Since radiotherapy...
Childhood Cancer
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Childhood Cancer: Childhood cancer is still a leading cause of death in children in the UK. Progress has been made in the treatment of childhood cancer in the last 30 years, such that oveerall some 80% of children will be cured by their disease. However, there remains particular disease types,...