Radiation-Free cancer fight: major trial tests if stronger drugs can spare patients harsh side effects
NCT ID NCT04215731
Summary
This large trial is comparing two treatment strategies for high-risk rectal cancer that hasn't spread. One group gets a very strong combination of chemotherapy drugs, hoping to avoid radiation and its long-term side effects like pain and incontinence. The other group gets the current standard approach of chemotherapy followed by combined chemo and radiation. The main goal is to see if the new approach controls the cancer just as well while improving patients' quality of life.
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The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
RECRUITINGGuangzhou, Guangdong, 510655, China
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