Clinical Trials

Please click on the name of any of our trials below to find out more

Please click on the eligibility diagram to see how patients can be co-enrolled into our trials

TRIGGER – a randomised trial looking at watch and wait for patients identified using mrTRG.  The trial is a non-CTIMP therefore the preoperative treatment offered is according to local practice and not determined by the trial protocol (e.g. CRT, TNT)

COMET – a study evaluating tumour deposits vs lymph nodes in patients undergoing surgery to determine the relative importance of tumour deposits vs lymph nodes in predicting prognosis.

SERENADE – a study  looking at earlier detection of liver metastases in patients with EMVI or tumour deposits using liver MRI.

IMPRESS – a randomised trial testing MRI staging for pelvic sigmoid cancer compared with CT to improve surgical outcomes.

Beyond TME Origins – a study evaluating the cause and treatment of pelvic recurrence following initial treatment of primary colon and rectal cancer in the pelvis.

ctDNA – a study to determine the relationship between ctDNA and EMVI/tumour deposits in patients undergoing primary colon or rectal cancer surgery

EVIDENCE – a tissue study evaluating whether distant metastases in colorectal cancer are related to EMVI and tumour deposits, not lymph nodes

DRIVEN – a retrospective analysis of pre-operative prognostic biomarkers in resected right compared with left colon cancer, and the influence of operative approach on survival

PRESERVE – a study to determine if we can successfully introduce accurate MRI staging of early rectal cancer into MDTs in 20 NHS Trusts

MERCURY 3 – a study to determine that a different staging system of mrTDV will improve the care and survival rates of patients with rectal cancer compared with the current practice of using TNM.

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Deferral of Surgery

MARVEL

MERCURY II

SOPRANO