Through social media, we recently encountered a patient-led, KRAS-specific patient advocacy organisation called KRAS Kickers. They are doing stellar work for those affected by the KRAS biomarker. We made contact, met via a Zoom call with founder Terri Conneran, and have forged an alliance for sharing information and progress to mark Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month [...]
On May 21st, 2021, our partners Cancer Trials Ireland are hosting an online 'Cancer Retreat’ for the entire clinical trials community of oncologists (medical, radiation and surgical), haematologists, researchers, research nurses, clinical site managers, teams, and patients. The event will provide an opportunity to discuss how the cancer trials community works together, how that could [...]
Principal Investigators (PIs) involved in the COLOSSUS and MoTriColor projects hosted a packed public meeting for people with colorectal cancer, their carers, and relatives on February 27, 2020, at the Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona. Berta Colldeforns Riera of VHIO, one of the co-organizers of this interactive event reported: "Everyone seemed very interested [...]
In advance of the launch of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (March) 2020, COLOSSUS partners at VHIO have organized a special public event on Thursday, the 27th of February, from 18:00h-20:00h, at C/Rosselló, 231, 2-1 in Barcelona. Download the promotional flyer in PDF here: What is changing in the diagnosis and treatment of CRC_ (003) As [...]
Pictured (from L to R) Iosune Baraibar, medical oncologist; Mireia Sanchis, Project Manager; Ariadna Garcia, Research Nurse; Javier Ros, Medical Oncologist; Javier Gonzalo, Project Manager* On November 5, 2019, Dr Rodrigo Dienstmann and the colorectal cancer clinical research team under the leadership of Dr Elena Elez at Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology have registered the first person in Spain for [...]
The COLOSSUS explainer video is now launched. Watch it here. You can find it in our Project Materials toolkit too. This short video was a collaborative project involving Pintail Limited, RCSI, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology. The team also obtained PPI input from Cancer Trials Ireland. Enjoy! [...]
Professor Annette Byrne, Head of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RSCI) Precision Cancer Medicine Group and Coordinator of the EC funded multi-million Euro Colorectal Cancer Research Programme COLOSSUS hosted and chaired an event at RCSI on the 30th April 2019 in Dublin. The meeting provided a fitting finale to Bowel Cancer Awareness Month throughout Europe. [...]
On the island of Ireland, what research is ongoing to help advance treatments for colorectal cancer? To celebrate Colon Cancer Awareness month, COLOSSUS will be hosting and managing a public event on 30 April 2019 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin from 6:30- 7:30 PM. Prof Annette Byrne, Head RCSI Precision Cancer [...]
On September 21, 2018, the fifth Patient Voice in Cancer Research event took place at University College Dublin's Conway Institute. At this interactive event, RCSI's Dr Alice O'Farrell presented COLOSSUS at an exhibition alongside several other Dublin-based cancer research projects with Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) aspects. The event drew a crowd of more than [...]
COLOSSUS researchers Dirk Fey of Systems Biology Ireland at University College Dublin (UCD) and Alice O' Farrell of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) tended a COLOSSUS stand at the Patient Voices in Cancer Research event at UCD on April 11, 2018. The event organizers namely UCD School of Medicine, UCD Conway Institute, Systems Biology Ireland & BREAST-PREDICT, the [...]
