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A trial looking at nilotinib for newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukaemia (ENEST1st)

Overview

Cancer types:

Blood cancers, Chronic leukaemia, Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), Leukaemia

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at nilotinib for people with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) with the Philadelphia chromosome.

This trial was also for people with CML that had a high level of a protein called BCR-ABL and whose leukaemia was in the chronic phase.

Recruitment start: 1 September 2010

Recruitment end: 15 July 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

Dr David Marin

Supported by

Novartis

Last reviewed: 1 June 2017

CRUK internal database number: 7274

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