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A trial looking at low dose oestrogen to treat advanced breast cancer after menopause

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial looked at a drug called oestradiol to treat advanced breast cancer. It was for women:

  • who’d had a type of hormone therapy drug called an aromatase inhibitor, but it had stopped working

  • whose breast cancer was

Recruitment start: 1 December 2005

Recruitment end: 31 December 2011

How to join

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

Chief investigators

Dr Sacha Howell

Supported by

Bayer-Schering

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Last reviewed: 16 Nov 2018

CRUK internal database number: 1255

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