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A trial looking at radiotherapy with erlotinib for lung cancer that has spread to the brain (TACTIC)

Overview

Cancer types:

Cancer spread to the brain, Lung cancer, Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This study looked at radiotherapy to the brain alongside a drug called erlotinib for non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that had spread to the brain.

This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 4 January 2008

Recruitment end: 4 June 2010

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 Siow Ming Lee

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Roche

University College London (UCL)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/05/034.

Last reviewed: 13 November 2014

CRUK internal database number: 706

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