Trainees: Enhance your research portfolio!
Are you a specialist trainee in surgery, medical or clinical oncology and are willing to help recruit to the Add-Aspirin cancer trial?
What's in it for you?
• Gain research experience
• Receive advice on clinical trial recruitment
• Receive a certificate for your training portfolio
How to get involved
• Check that your hospital is participating in the Add-Aspirin trial and that your consultant is happy for you to be involved. List of participating hospitals
• Ensure your GCP training is up to date
• Liaise with the research nurse at your hospital and get added to the delegation log for the trial
• Email us (quoting “Trainee recruitment scheme”) to receive full details and advice/resources for screening and recruiting participants: mrcctu.add-aspirin@ucl.ac.uk
• Check the website for recruitment tips and liaise with the research nurses at MDTs and clinics
• Help to recruit at least 2 patients from any of the disease-specific cohorts during a 6-month attachment
• Email us the patient trial IDs to receive your certificate
Which patients are eligible?
The trial is assessing whether regular aspirin use can prevent recurrence and improve survival in patients with Gastro-oesophageal , Breast, Prostate or Colorectal cancer after being treated with curative intent.
| Cohort | Eligible Tumour Types | Treatment |
| Gastro-oesophageal: | Adenocarcinoma or squamous |
Radical chemoradiation or Surgery +/- neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy |
| Colorectal: | Adenocarcinoma stage II/III | Surgery +/- neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy |
| Breast: | Invasive breast cancer | Surgery +/- neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy or adjuvant radiotherapy |
| Prostate: | Node negative, non-metastatic adenocarcinoma (T1-3a) | Prostatectomy +/- adjuvant radiotherapy or + salvage radiotherapy or radical radiotherapy |
Patients are excluded if they are already taking aspirin/anticoagulants. Please see full details of eligibility criteria here, and in the trial protocol.
Contact us
Email mrcctu.add-aspirin@ucl.ac.uk to register or to find out more.
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Contact Details
If you are an individual who is interested in taking part in Add-Aspirin, please talk to your doctor who will be able to consider whether you are suitable for the trial.
For healthcare professionals
Please log into the members area for Add-Aspirin contact details.
Register Interest
For healthcare professionals
If your centre would like to recruit participants to Add-Aspirin, contact us:
mrcctu.add-aspirin@ucl.ac.uk
From Monday 16th March 2020, to RANDOMISE a participant in the UK please call +44 (0)20 7670 4925, rather than the usual randomisation line.
To RANDOMISE a participant from Republic of Ireland or India only, please use the 'Register a participant' link above to randomise online. Please make sure to press 'Randomise' once logged in to the server.
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