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A trial looking at celecoxib for women with breast cancer (REACT)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at a Cox-2 inhibitor called celecoxib to see if it stopped early breast cancer coming back. It was open to women who had all of the following:

  • breast surgery

  • further treatment after surgery

  • breast cancer that didn’t have a large number of the HER2 receptor (HER2 negative breast cancer)

This trial was open for people to join between 2007 and 2012. The team published the results in 2021.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

Recruitment start: 19 January 2007

Recruitment end: 1 October 2012

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

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

German Breast Group (GBG)

Imperial College London

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Pfizer

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUKE/03/015.

Last reviewed: 21 September 2021

CRUK internal database number: 464

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