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December 2011

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Opening/Closing Times over Christmas & New Year

Please note that the randomisation line will be closed from 13.00 on Friday 23rd December 2011 and will reopen at 9.00 on Wednesday 4th January 2012.

The laboratory at the Western General Hospital will be closed from the 22nd December 2011 to the 4th January 2012. There will be no BNP testing during this period, so if any cardiac patients do have any bloods taken at this time please follow the alternative protocol instructions as detailed in the lab manual and on the latest newsflash.

In addition if any sites require lab kits or blood collections please submit requests by the 16th December 2011.

New Country Participating - New Zealand

The SUPREMO team are pleased to announce that a new country has been added to the trial. We would like to extend our thanks to Dr Michael Tills & Debbie Metcalfe at the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand for all their hard work in activating this site. This is the 19th country to participate in the SUPREMO trial. We look forward to randomising the 1st patient from this site.

Recruitment Milestone

In addition we would like to congratulate Dr Charlotte Abson, Kay Jones, Elizabeth Newman-Horne, Louise Black and Suzie Reyner from Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham who recruited the 1000th patient to Trans-SUPREMO on the 5th of December.

Correct CRF versions - Sites are reminded that patients who were consented to protocol versions 26 and 27 should continue to use version 1 CRFs, dated April 2006 and not to use version 2 CRFs, dated November 2010. Version 2 CRFs should only be used for patients who have consented to the current version of the protocol, version 29.

First TROG sites opened - First TROG Site at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre at East Melbourne opened to recruitment on the 21st September 2011. The second site has opened at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre at Moorabbin on the 5th October 2011. Both of these sites have the same Principal Investigator, Dr Steven David.

60th Patient recruited in China - 60th patient in China recruited from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing on the 22nd September 2011. This completes the recruitment from the Chinese sites.

1200th Patient Recruited - We have now reached 75% of the revised accrual target when the 1200th patient was recruited from Wrexham Maelor Hospital on the 28th September 2011.

100th patient from a non-EORTC site was recruited from the National Cancer Centre in Singapore on the 8th September 2011.

All UK sites have now received V29 approval.