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Janet Dancey

Runs Canada's academic cancer trials network, which has led practice-changing trials from PA.3 to CO.17 and beyond.

Janet Dancey directs the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, coordinating national and international trials across cancers, and previously led precision medicine efforts at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and drug development at the US NCI.

Role
Director, Canadian Cancer Trials Group; Professor of Oncology, Queen's University
Specialisms
Clinical trialsPrecision oncologyDrug developmentCooperative groups

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rctNew England Journal of Medicine 2025changed practice
CHALLENGE: a structured exercise programme after chemotherapy improves survival in colon cancer

For colon cancer survivors, a prescribed, supported exercise programme is now an evidence-based treatment with a survival benefit comparable to many drugs. Health systems will need to fund exercise consultants as they fund chemotherapy. The trial does not tell us whether unsupervised advice achieves the same.

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technologies

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Comprehensive genomic profiling

institutions

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Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG)

key papers

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CHALLENGE: a structured exercise programme after chemotherapy improves survival in colon cancer