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A trial looking at radiotherapy in small cell lung cancer (REST)

Overview

Cancer types:

Lung cancer, Small cell lung cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at radiotherapy after chemotherapy for people who had small cell lung cancer. The trial was for people with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that had spread beyond their lungs or had a large amount of disease within the chest ().

Recruitment start: 18 February 2011

Recruitment end: 1 December 2012

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 Corinne Faivre-Finn

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Dutch Cancer Society

Dutch Lung Cancer Research Group

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Trials co-ordination unit (MAHSC-CTU)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUKE/10/034.

We have more information about the work of Professor Corinne Faivre-Finn.

Last reviewed: 08 Sept 2016

CRUK internal database number: 6955

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