New drug cocktail aims to stall aggressive head and neck cancers

NCT ID NCT00494182

Summary

This study tested whether adding the drug sorafenib to two standard chemotherapy drugs (carboplatin and paclitaxel) could better control advanced head and neck cancer that has returned or spread. It involved 48 patients with this difficult-to-treat cancer. The main goal was to see if the three-drug combination could delay the cancer's progression and shrink tumors.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • M D Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

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