Great news to see another international expert joining the COLOR III collaborative
Prof Antonio Caycedo, HSN Sudbury Canada, author of several peer-reviewed publications on TaTME.
We are happy that he and his team are joining to deliver high quality evidence in this global RCT !
Beijing Friendship Hospital, is open for accrual as of Deceber 14th 2018!
This is the first center in China and the first collaboration between Europe-USA-China in a colorectal surgery randomized trial!
We congratulate and thank Prof Hongwei Yao, deputy chair of COLOR III in China and chair of Chinese Task force of TaTME with joining the collaboration!
Prof. Hongwei Yao – Prof HJ Bonjer – Prof Zhongtao Zhang
On 28-11-2018 the Krakow (Poland) trial site included the 100th COLOR III trial subject!
Dr Michał Pędziwiatr congratulations!
We are thankfull for all participants in this multinational surgical RCT and thank all participating surgeons and studynurses for their continuous effort!
The Deventer ziekenhuis has passed the SQA!
As of now the team of dr Talsma and dr Bosker can recruit patients in for COLOR III
Welcome and thank you for all the hard work
Prof Türler and his team passed the Surgical quality assurance of the pretrial.
We welcome the hospital in Bonn to the randomization phase of COLOR III.
This adds Johanniter Krankenhaus as the fourth COLOR III site that is open for patient inclusion in Germany!
We congratulate Dr. Muneer Deeb with passing the SQA of the pretrial!
As of September 7th, 2018; Ammerland Klinik in Germany is open for accrual of patients to the randomization phase of the COLOR III trial!
Hereby we provide you some slides on the COLOR III trial, feel free to use in presentations.
The list with sites open for accrual and those in process of officially joinig the COLOR III collaborative will be updated on a regular base.
Also we will update the accrual number and in case of changes of the protocol.
Towards Global collaboration on high level evidence in TaTME or LapTME for rectal cancer
1. Gelderse Vallei, Ede , dr Sietses, 23 patients
2. VUmc, Amsterdam, dr Tuynman, 12 patients
3. Caritas-KH st Josef, Regensburg, prof. Fürst, 7 patients
4. Hospital de Braga, Braga, dr Leao, 7 patients
5. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Centre, Taipei, dr Chien-Chih Chen, 6 patients
Great effort, thank you all!
Latest Center that entered randomization phase of COLOR III is Charité Berlin with dr. Aigner as local investigator.
A very warm welcome!
Current accrual 76
Sites open for inclusion: 12
After revisions of the eCRFS the platform has been updated.
Video-upload is working as well
All datamanagers in the Netherlands will review the data forms of the randomized patients.