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A study looking at chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy before surgery for pancreatic cancer (ESPAC-5F)

Overview

Cancer types:

Pancreatic cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This study is comparing immediate surgery with treatment before surgery for cancer of the pancreas. You may have either chemotherapy or chemotherapy and radiotherapy together before your operation.

The trial is supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 1 August 2014

Recruitment end: 5 December 2018

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 Paula Ghaneh

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust

University of Liverpool

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/12/045.

Last reviewed: 07 Dec 2018

CRUK internal database number: 10559

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