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A trial looking at the effect of having trastuzumab or lapatinib before surgery on early breast cancer (EPHOS B)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial was for people whose breast cancer had tested positive for the HER2 protein. This isHER2 positive breast cancer.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

This trial was open for people to join between 2010 and 2015. The team published the results in 2021.

Recruitment start: 15 November 2010

Recruitment end: 30 September 2015

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

Prof Nigel Bundred

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

ICR Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/08/002.

Last reviewed: 12 Jul 2023

CRUK internal database number: 1701

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