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A trial looking at chemotherapy with or without cetuximab for people over the age of 70 with bowel cancer that has spread (EORTC 40085)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bowel (colorectal) cancer, Colon cancer, Rectal cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial is looked at a drug called cetuximab alongside fluorouracil (5FU) chemotherapy. The trial was for people aged at least 70 who had bowel cancer that had spread elsewhere in the body.

Recruitment start: 14 March 2014

Recruitment end: 15 January 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 Richard Adams

Supported by

European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Merck KGaA

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Last reviewed: 21 Jun 2023

CRUK internal database number: 11579

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