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A trial looking at capecitabine with or without bevacizumab for colorectal cancer (QUASAR 2)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bowel (colorectal) cancer, Colon cancer, Rectal cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial compared capecitabine and bevacizumab with capecitabine alone for bowel (colorectal) cancer. It was for people whose cancer was thought to have a high risk of spreading to another part of the body.

Recruitment start: 12 April 2005

Recruitment end: 30 September 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 David Kerr

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Roche

University of Oxford

Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUKE/02/017.

Last reviewed: 11 January 2017

CRUK internal database number: 403

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