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A trial looking at treatment before and after surgery for stomach or gastro oesophageal junction cancer (the INNOVATION Trial) (EORTC 1203)

Overview

Cancer types:

Gastro oesophageal cancer, Stomach cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial was looking at 2 targeted cancer drugs called trastuzumab and pertuzumab and chemotherapy. It was for people:

  • with stomach cancer or cancer where the food pipe (oesophagus) meets the stomach (gastro oesophageal junction)

  • who had HER2 positive cancer. This means the cancer has large amounts of a protein called .

The trial was open for people to join between 2015 and 2021. The team presented their first results at a conference in 2023.

Recruitment start: 2 December 2016

Recruitment end: 31 December 2021

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 John Bridgewater

Supported by

European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Last reviewed: 01 Sept 2024

CRUK internal database number: 13571

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