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The Anticancer Fund is now part of FORCE, a major European initiative supporting research on rare and hard-to-treat cancers. Alongside 13 non-profit partners from 11 countries, we’re working to bring better, evidence-based treatments to patients who urgently need them.

On International Clinical Trials Day, we’ve reached a milestone: more than 1.000 patients are participating in our 7 ongoing clinical trials across 31 countries. These numbers represent more than data — they represent progress, and lives. Discover how smart research is driving change.

We started a global trial, U-R-Immune Glioma, investigating whether Immune therapy can offer an alternative treatment for children and young adults with brain tumours. In collaboration with SickKids and CHEO in Canada.

Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) have very few treatment options when the initial chemotherapy has failed. This is particularly true for patients over 60, or with co-morbidities, who are not eligible for stem cell transplantation. On average, they will survive only a few months.

The results of the AML-ViVA trial show that low dose azacitidine, pioglitazone and all-trans retinoic acid is safe in patients who do not respond to initial chemotherapy.

A Cambridge-led trial testing a potential new treatment combination for post-menopausal women with hormone driven breast cancer reports positive findings at the international San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The results show that either a high or low dose of megestrol when given with the standard hormone therapy, letrozole, could be more effective in stopping tumour growth than letrozole alone.

The Anticancer Fund aims to intensify its commitment to helping patients confronted with pancreatic cancer and finding solutions for treatment. As November marks Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we underscore the urgent need for dedicated research during a meeting of the European REMEDi4ALL consortium.