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A trial of AUY922 with Herceptin for advanced breast cancer

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 1/2

Details

This trial was for people with breast cancer that had grown outside the breast (locally advanced) or spread to other parts of the body (metastatic).

It was for people whose cancer:

  • got worse despite treatment with chemotherapy and Herceptin

  • had receptors for a protein called HER2 ()

Recruitment start: 11 January 2011

Recruitment end: 15 May 2012

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Dr Anthony Kong

Supported by

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Novartis

Last reviewed: 16 Jul 2018

CRUK internal database number: 7395

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