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A trial looking at chemotherapy for advanced non small cell lung cancer (BTOG2)

Overview

Cancer types:

Lung cancer, Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial found out more about chemotherapy to treat non small cell lung cancer. The trial was open to people with non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that had spread. This trial was supported by Cancer Research UK.

Chemotherapy is sometimes used to treat people who have non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). If you have chemotherapy for NSCLC, you may have cisplatin or carboplatin.

Recruitment start: 1 April 2005

Recruitment end: 26 October 2009

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 David R Ferry

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Eli Lilly

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/04/009.

Last reviewed: 23 August 2015

CRUK internal database number: 417

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