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A trial looking at enzalutamide for early stage breast cancer (ARB)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial is investigating whether the hormone treatment enzalutamide is a useful treatment for women with breast cancer before they have surgery.

It is for women with one of the following

  • breast cancer that has oestrogen receptors (oestrogen receptor positive)

  • breast cancer that has androgen receptors, but doesn’t have receptors for the hormones progesterone and oestrogen, or for the protein HER2 (triple negative breast cancer)

Recruitment start: 24 August 2015

Recruitment end: 30 January 2018

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 Peter Schmid

Supported by

Astellas Pharma

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Queen Mary University of London

Last reviewed: 23 February 2018

CRUK internal database number: 13142

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