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A trial looking at erlotinib for advanced non small cell lung cancer (TOPICAL)

Overview

Cancer types:

Lung cancer, Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at erlotinib (Tarceva) for people with advanced non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were not fit enough to have chemotherapy. This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 5 April 2005

Recruitment end: 1 April 2009

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 Siow-Ming Lee

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Roche

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/03/007.

Last reviewed: 8 January 2013

CRUK internal database number: 339

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