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A study to find out whether lapatinib reaches breast cancer that has spread to the brain

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer, Cancer spread to the brain, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Other

Details

This study was done to find out whether lapatinib can get to breast cancer that has spread to the brain. It was for women whose breast cancer cells have a large amount of a protein called HER2.

This is called HER2 positive breast cancer.

Recruitment start: 1 September 2011

Recruitment end: 5 March 2013

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 Charles Coombes

Supported by

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Imanova Centre for Imaging Sciences, Imperial College London

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Last reviewed: 25 Mar 2018

CRUK internal database number: 8040

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