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A trial looking at bevacizumab (Avastin) with chemotherapy before surgery for early HER2 negative breast cancer (ARTemis)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial compared bevacizumab plus chemotherapy with chemotherapy alone, before surgery for early stage breast cancer.

Breast cancer cells often have receptors for a protein called HER2. If there are only small numbers of receptors for the HER2 protein, the cancer is called . This trial was for women with HER2 negative breast cancer that hadn’t spread. The trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Recruitment start: 1 April 2009

Recruitment end: 31 January 2013

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 Helena Earl

Dr Larry Hayward

Supported by

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Roche

Sanofi

University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh

University of Warwick

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/08/037.

Last reviewed: 21 May 2019

CRUK internal database number: 3849

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