FOCUS Trial

We studied patients with advanced colorectal cancer, starting treatment with non-curative intent. 2135 unpretreated patients were randomly assigned to three treatment strategies in the ratio 1:1:1. Strategy A (control group) was single-agent fl uorouracil (given with levofolinate over 48 h every 2 weeks) until failure, then single-agent irinotecan. Strategy B was fl uorouracil until failure, then combination chemotherapy. Strategy C was combination chemotherapy from the outset.

Type: Cancer Genomics
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 1 Publication

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD50000001007	Shallow whole genome sequencing of adavanced colorectal tumors from patients included in the FOCUS clinical trial. Performed to calculate assocations of irinotecan with copy-number alterations. Copy number aberration analysis of 349 enroled patients.	Illumina HiSeq 4000	349

Publications	Citations
Different strategies of sequential and combination chemotherapy for patients with poor prognosis advanced colorectal cancer (MRC FOCUS): a randomised controlled trial. Seymour MT, Maughan TS, Ledermann JA, Topham C, James R, Gwyther SJ, Smith DB, Shepherd S, Maraveyas A, Ferry DR, Meade AM, Thompson L, Griffiths GO, Parmar MK, Stephens RJ, FOCUS Trial Investigators, National Cancer Research Institute Colorectal Clinical Studies Group. Lancet 370: 2007 143-152	322

Publications

Citations

Different strategies of sequential and combination chemotherapy for patients with poor prognosis advanced colorectal cancer (MRC FOCUS): a randomised controlled trial.
Seymour MT, Maughan TS, Ledermann JA, Topham C, James R, Gwyther SJ, Smith DB, Shepherd S, Maraveyas A, Ferry DR, Meade AM, Thompson L, Griffiths GO, Parmar MK, Stephens RJ, FOCUS Trial Investigators, National Cancer Research Institute Colorectal Clinical Studies Group. Lancet 370: 2007 143-152

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