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A trial looking at chemotherapy with or without panitumumab for advanced cancer of the food pipe (oesophagus) or stomach (REAL3)

Overview

Cancer types:

Oesophageal cancer, Stomach cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at chemotherapy with or without panitumumab (Vectibix) for cancer of the oesophagus, stomach or cancer that started where the oesophagus meets the stomach. This is called gastro oesophageal junction cancer. The trial was for people with cancer that had spread into surrounding tissue or to another part of the body (advanced) and who were unable to have surgery. This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 20 May 2008

Recruitment end: 19 October 2011

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 Cunningham

Supported by

Amgen

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

National Institute for Health Research Cancer Research Network (NCRN)

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUKE/07/049.

Last reviewed: 11 June 2013

CRUK internal database number: 1711

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