New drug combo tested to outsmart resistant breast cancer

NCT ID NCT01560416

Summary

This study tested whether adding an experimental drug called ganetespib to the standard hormone therapy fulvestrant could better control advanced breast cancer that had stopped responding to other hormone treatments. It involved 50 people with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either fulvestrant alone or the combination, to see if the combo could delay cancer growth longer.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • DFCI at Faulkner Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02130, United States

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • New Hampshire Oncology and Hematology, P.A.

    Concord, New Hampshire, 03301, United States

  • University of North Carolina

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States

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