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A trial looking at having a stent with or without photodynamic therapy for symptoms of advanced biliary tract cancer (PHOTOSTENT - 02)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bile duct cancer, Biliary tree cancers, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at having and a tube called a stent to relieve symptoms of advanced cancer of the or .

The trial was supported by Cancer Research UK. It was open for people to join between 2007 and 2009. The team reported the results in 2018.

Recruitment start: 7 July 2007

Recruitment end: 18 December 2009

How to join

Please note: In order to you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Professor Stephen Pereira

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

University College London (UCL)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/08/011.

Last reviewed: 06 Jul 2023

CRUK internal database number: 502

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