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A trial looking at chemotherapy for people with rectal cancer (Copernicus)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bowel (colorectal) cancer, Rectal cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial looked at whether it was useful for people with cancer of the back passage (rectal cancer) to have chemotherapy before surgery.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

Recruitment start: 15 May 2012

Recruitment end: 29 November 2015

How to join

Please note: In order to you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Dr Simon Gollins

Supported by

Bobby Moore Fund (BMF)

Cancer Research UK

Cardiff University

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Wales Cancer Trials Unit (WCTU)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/10/020.

Last reviewed: 16 Oct 2016

CRUK internal database number: 6189

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