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A trial comparing different chemotherapy drugs for advanced triple negative breast cancer (TNT trial)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial is looking at 2 different chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer that doesn’t have receptors for oestrogen, progesterone or HER2. This type of breast cancer is called triple negative breast cancer. Women can also take part if they have advanced breast cancer and have a known gene fault called a BRCA gene mutation, whether or not they have any of the receptors. This trial is supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 16 January 2008

Recruitment end: 28 February 2014

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

Prof Andrew Tutt

Supported by

Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

King's College London

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/07/012.

Last reviewed: 28 February 2014

CRUK internal database number: 818

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