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A trial to improve radiotherapy to treat cancer of the head and neck (ART DECO)

Overview

Cancer types:

Head and neck cancers, Laryngeal cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial compared standard dose radiotherapy with higher dose radiotherapy for people with certain types of head and neck cancer.

It was for people with cancer in or around the voice box.

This trial was open for people to join between 2011 and 2015. The team published the results in 2021.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

Recruitment start: 11 February 2011

Recruitment end: 20 October 2015

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

Professor Christopher Nutting

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

The National Health Service Research and Development Executive

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/10/018.

Last reviewed: 10 March 2022

CRUK internal database number: 5069

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