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A trial looking at enadenotucirev with chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer (CEDAR)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bowel (colorectal) cancer, Rectal cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 1

Details

This trial looked at having enadenotucirev with chemoradiotherapy for people with cancer of the back passage (rectal cancer) that was locally advanced.

Enadenotucirev is a virus treatment for cancer. You pronounce enadenotucirev as en-ad-in-oh-too-sir-ev.

Locally advanced rectal cancer is cancer that has spread into the surrounding tissue.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

The trial was open for people to join between 2019 and 2022. The team presented the results at a conference in 2023.

Recruitment start: 1 July 2019

Recruitment end: 30 April 2022

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 Maria Hawkins

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Oncology Clinical Trials Office (OCTO)

PsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd

University of Oxford

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number is CRUK/17/015.

Last reviewed: 15 Mar 2024

CRUK internal database number: 14956

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