A trial comparing surgery before and during chemotherapy for ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer (CHORUS)

Overview

Cancer types:

Ovarian cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial was for women with ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancer, and primary peritoneal cancer that had spread. This trial looked at whether giving some chemotherapy before as well as after surgery, was as good as giving all the chemotherapy after surgery. This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 1 March 2004

Recruitment end: 3 August 2010

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 Sean Kehoe

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Medical Research Council (MRC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/07/009.

Last reviewed: 23 August 2015

CRUK internal database number: 430

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