The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) has launched “An Australian-first approach to cancer clinical trials” that it calls registry-based randomised controlled trials or registry trials.
The initiative brings together data from a range of patients at multiple hospitals, enabling researchers to better evaluate the impact of different cancer therapy strategies in the real-world setting. It aims to simplify trial conduct, test different treatment strategies in a routine care patient population, increase patient recruitment, and gauge efficacy and safety.