We're on 90 patients! 🎉 Getting close now ...
Yorkshire Cancer Research Leeds Radiotherapy Research 💙

Happy New Year!
Yesterday, colleagues The Christie NHS recruited patient 83 (out of 104) 🎉 🎉
And last week Yorkshire Cancer Research approved a £176k extension to our trial grant, ensuring that we can complete recruitment and FU as planned for all patients 🥳🥳🥳
Leeds CTRU #radonc

This week’s fantastic national media coverage of The APHRODITE trial culminated in a ITV Granada Reports interview - thank-you for inviting us to share the advantages of clinical trials & #radiotherapy for #rectalcancer with your audience

The ⁦University of Leeds⁩ ⁦The APHRODITE trial⁩ trial is testing a smarter kinder radiotherapy treatment in early rectal cancer. Funded by ⁦Yorkshire Cancer Research⁩ and run by ⁦Leeds CTRU⁩ it is benefiting patients on both sides of the Pennines. bbc.com/news/articles/…

It's fantastic to see research funded by the charity making a difference to lives across the country 💙

More great media coverage for APHRODITE today! The trial is a testament to the close ongoing collaboration between Leeds CTRU and Leeds Radiotherapy Research 💙 - and would not have happened without essential funding and support from Yorkshire Cancer Research
University of Leeds
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Great to see a patient from the The APHRODITE trial bravely sharing their story. It is a real pleasure to provide the quality assurance for this trial and we are delighted that 75/104 patients have now been recruited. Well done team!

Great to see The APHRODITE trial recruitment rate accelerating - early rectal ca, XRT dose escalation & organ preservation. Very much a team effort - special thanks to radiology & endoscopy colleagues The Christie NHS for keeping up with the pace of requests #rectalcancer

It’s such a great feeling when your trial finally hits its recruitment groove. Never easy but always worth the effort Ane Appelt 👍👏💪

July was our best month yet for recruitment!

We recruited ✨7 patients✨ across our 11 trial sites, brining us to a total of 63 patients (out of 104 planned)

A special shout-out to The Christie NHS, where Claire Arthur & colleagues recruited 3 patients!

#rectalcancer #radonc

Thanks to everyone who came to discuss our working paper on the interim The APHRODITE trial patient preference results! We look at the trade-offs patients having radiotherapy for rectal cancer make between cure/side effects - relevant for clinical dose-escalation studies #hesg2023

Breaking my holiday (semi-)silence for these exciting (preliminary) results from the The APHRODITE trial patient preference sub-study - exploring patient treatment preferences
in the setting of non-operative management of #rectalcancer
#radonc

I'm going to be sliding into your SMDMs this morning, presenting interim results from the The APHRODITE trial patient preference project Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) #esmdm23

Excellent to see our EFOMP work on the involvement of #medphys in clinical trials expertly presented by Natalie L Abbott 💚 on the #ESTRO23 stage
(And I definitely appreciated the The APHRODITE trial mention!)

We're halfway! We've included 52 out of 104 planned participants in the APHRODITE trial 😊
Many, many thanks to all patients and local research teams!
#RectalCancer #RadOnc #OrganPreservation

#BowelCancerAwarenessMonth

The Research team at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust are proud to have (so far) recruited 4 patients to the APHRODITE Trial. 1/2
ctru.leeds.ac.uk/aphrodite/
The APHRODITE trial Leeds CTRU Leeds Research & Innovation Lincoln Radiotherapy NHS United Lincs University of Leeds

We hit the '50 patients' mark today! Almost halfway 🥳
Many congratulations to The Christie NHS for recruiting the 50th participant - and for their continued strong support for the trial
#RectalCancer #RadOnc #OrganPreservation Leeds CTRU Yorkshire Cancer Research