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A trial looking at a giredestrant for breast cancer (acelERA Breast Cancer)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial compared giredestrant with standard treatment for breast cancer that had either come back after treatment or spread.

It was for people whose breast cancer cells:

  • had receptors for the hormone oestrogen (oestrogen receptor positive or ER positive cancer)

  • did not have receptors for the protein HER 2 (HER2 negative cancer)

The trial was open for people to join between 2020 and 2021. The team published the results in 2024.

You pronounce giredestrant as jeer-a-das-trant.

Recruitment start: 25 February 2021

Recruitment end: 13 October 2021

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

Dr Sarah Khan

Supported by

Roche

Last reviewed: 04 Feb 2025

CRUK internal database number: 17341

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