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A trial looking at 5 years or 10 years of tamoxifen for women with early breast cancer (aTTom)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial was done to see if it’s better to take tamoxifen for 10 years rather than 5 years after surgery for early breast cancer.

The trial was supported by Cancer Research UK. It was open for people to join between 1991 and 2005. The trial team presented some results at a conference in 2013. They published more results in a medical journal in 2019 and 2022.

Recruitment start: 1 January 1991

Recruitment end: 31 December 2005

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 Daniel Rea

Professor Richard Gray

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Medical Research Council (MRC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Biotheranostics, Inc.

University of Birmingham

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/94/001.

Last reviewed: 24 April 2023

CRUK internal database number: 27

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