The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has provided funding to Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit, for a cancer trials team.  The Foundation is a fund within the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Charity that aims to find more effective ways to detect and treat cancer.  The new team will work with investigators to design and develop trials whose findings will benefit patients with cancer in the region, nationally and internationally.

Meet the Team

Rebecca Maier - Deputy Lead of CTU (Project Lead)
James Wason - Professor of Biostatistics (Project Lead)
Helen Hancock - Director of CTU
Natasha Newell - Design Team Methodologist
Svetlana Cherlin - Design Team Biostatistician
Mark Walker - Director of CRF

How/when to contact us

We would recommend that you contact the team early so that we are able to help you think through the research questions, aims of the research, methodology and outcomes of the study.  We will work with you on all aspects of your research proposal including:

• design
• research methodology
• identifying suitable sources of funding
• involving patients and public

Please contact:  SBRF.NCTU@newcastle.ac.uk 

What to expect

When you contact the design team we will arrange to meet with you; this meeting will usualy be face to face.  During this meeting we will discuss your research ideas and plans.  We can also discuss the possibility of collaboration to enable delivery of the trial.

Current NCTU Trials in Patients with Cancer

PROACT:  Can we prevent Chemotherapy-related Heart Damage in Patients with Breast Cancer?
CI: Dr David Austin

VARIANT:  A multicentre randomised feasibility trial of implementing a biomarker-guided personalised treatment in patients with advanced prostate cancer
CI: Dr Rakesh Heer