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Clinical Trial Results

Summaries of Newsworthy Clinical Trial Results

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Search for Clinical Trials 1
NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry.

Anal Cancer Home Page 2
NCI's gateway for information about anal cancer.
Anal Cancer Trial Results

1.  Cisplatin No Better than Standard Therapy for Anal Canal Cancer 3
(Posted: 04/30/2008) - Replacing mitomycin with cisplatin in chemoradiotherapy for cancer of the anal canal failed to improve either disease-free or overall survival and resulted in more patients needing colostomies, according to a study in the April 23, 2008, Journal of the American Medical Association.


Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/anal
3http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/cisplatin-anal0408