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There are many ways to get involved with APCaRI. Join our team, support events in your community or donate to this important initiative.

  • APCaRI 2023 Fall Symposium

    Over 60 participants, including clinicians, scientists, clinical research personnel, trainees, benefactors, and representatives of Prostate Cancer support groups, will participate in this fun and enriching event.
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  • Careers & Training

    APCaRI members are working on the many problems associated with prostate cancer. We need bold, innovative and curious people to be engaged and to focus their energies to solve these problems. We offer a variety of careers and training programs from volunteer to principal investigator to collaborator.
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  • Events

    APCaRI members are not just a group of stuffy scientists working in a laboratory. We take great pride being a part of community and fundraising events that help raise awareness about prostate cancer. From the Underwear Affair to the Motorcycle Ride for Dad to Movember Events, APCaRI members are there to talk with and ask questions.
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  • Donate

    To make this all work, we need research dollars. Your kind donations help APCaRI to identify and test new biomarkers of prostate cancer, design and validate a new fluid biopsy test for prostate cancer diagnosis, purchase research tools and help train the next generation of scientists to carry forward the research ideas of today.
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Other ways to help?

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to affect Canadian men. One in seven men will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime. Here are more ways to help change those statistics.

ClarityDX Prostate clinical study expanding to the United States

Oct 8, 2019: APCaRI and Nanostics Inc. are excited to announce the opening of the first recruitment site in the US for the ClarityDX Prostate clinical validation study with Century Clinical Research Inc., based in Daytona Beach, Florida. ClarityDX Prostate is a novel liquid biopsy test for the early diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer.

The clinical validation study targets the recruitment of 2,800 patients with elevated levels of PSA. Therefore, US recruitment will significantly accelerate the clinical study timeline and increase patient cohort diversity.

Funding support to include US patients comes from the Bird Dogs for Prostate Cancer Research, Alberta Cancer Foundation, Alberta Innovates-ASBIRI program and the University of Alberta. The US and Canadian study samples will continue to be processed in partnership with DynaLIFE Medical Labs in Edmonton, Alberta.

“We’re very happy to partner with Century Clinical Research to recruit US men to our study,” John Lewis, CEO of Nanostics said, “the Florida recruitment site will help us increase the regional diversity of our cohort and strengthen the results of our ClarityDX Prostate study, ultimately, allowing us to make the test available to men across North America.”

“Our extensive clinical trial research experience and diverse patient population in Daytona Beach makes us a perfect partner…” said Thomas Gaskin, Vice-President & CFO of Century Clinical Research, Inc., “we look forward to working with Nanostics to develop their ClarityDX Prostate test to help improve prostate cancer outcomes.”

Implementing ClarityDX Prostate may eliminate up to 600,000 unnecessary biopsies, 24,000 hospitalizations and up to 50% of unnecessary treatments for prostate cancer in North America. This equates to a projected $1.4B per year in cost savings to healthcare and a dramatic impact on the healthcare experience and quality of life for men.

About Century Clinical Research, Inc.
Century Clinical Research, Inc. has over ten years of clinical research experience in multiple specialties, including hematology and oncology. Our staff has completed numerous industry-sponsored clinical trials in phases II-IV and has an excellent track record in quality completion of critical trials. Century Clinical Research, Inc. offers a full research infrastructure and our research staff has been trained in electronic data capture with multiple sponsors. We use a computerized clinical research program for tracking study participation and regulatory documents.
Website: https://www.centuryclinical.com/century_clinical_research.html

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