A trial to compare chemotherapy with hormone therapy before surgery for breast cancer (NEOCENT)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Pilot

Details

This trial compared chemotherapy with hormone therapy before surgery for women with breast cancer. The trial was for women with breast cancer who were past their and had cancer that was likely to respond to hormone therapy ().

This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 11 August 2008

Recruitment end: 31 March 2011

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 Charles Coombes

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Novartis

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/07/041.

Last reviewed: 22 Dec 2014

CRUK internal database number: 146

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