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A trial looking at chemotherapy and capivasertib for triple negative breast cancer that has come back or spread (PAKT)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer, Secondary cancers

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial looked at adding a drug called capivasertib to paclitaxel chemotherapy for .

You pronounce capivasertib as cap-i-va-ser-tib.

This trial was for people whose breast cancer had come back after treatment or spread to other parts of the body.

Cancer Research UK supported this trial. It was open for people to join between 2014 and 2017. The team published the results in 2019.

Recruitment start: 14 May 2014

Recruitment end: 29 June 2017

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 Peter Schmid

Supported by

AstraZeneca

Barts Health NHS Trust

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Queen Mary University of London

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUKE/12/051.

Last reviewed: 7 February 2024

CRUK internal database number: 10434

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