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A trial comparing gemcitabine alone with gemcitabine and capecitabine together after surgery to remove cancer of the pancreas (ESPAC-4)

Overview

Cancer types:

Pancreatic cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial is looking at gemcitabine on its own or alongside another drug called capecitabine after surgery for cancer of the pancreas.

It is open to people with cancer where the pancreatic duct meets the bile duct, the ampulla of Vater. Cancer that starts there is called ampullary cancer.

People who had ductal adenocarcinoma (cancer of the pancreas) were also able to join. But the trial team is no longer recuiting these people.

Cancer Research UK supports this trial.

Recruitment start: 13 October 2008

Recruitment end: 5 December 2018

How to join

Please note: In order to you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Prof Paula Ghaneh

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust

University of Liverpool

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/07/024.

Last reviewed: 17 Nov 2022

CRUK internal database number: 636

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