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A trial of rucaparib for triple negative breast cancer or breast cancer with BRCA gene faults (RIO)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial is looking at a drug called rucaparib to treat triple negative breast cancer. It is also open to people with breast cancer caused by a fault in the BRCA 1 gene or BRCA 2 gene.

If breast cancer doesn’t have receptors for the hormones oestrogen or progesterone, or for the protein HER2, it is called triple negative breast cancer. This trial is supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 20 July 2015

Recruitment end: 1 December 2017

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 Nicholas Turner

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Clovis Oncology Inc

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK number CRUK/12/034.

Last reviewed: 11 December 2017

CRUK internal database number: 10083

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