# Palliative Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer

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## TL;DR

A phase 3 trial of Fluorouracil, Leucovorin and Raltitrexed in Colorectal cancer, run by Medical Research Council, with a status the registry has not verified recently.

## Summary

Palliative Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer is a phase 3 interventional study registered as NCT00002893 by Medical Research Council, with 900 participants planned, started 1995-06. Interventions recorded: fluorouracil, leucovorin calcium, raltitrexed. Conditions recorded: Colorectal Cancer.

Linked to the drug Raltitrexed because the registry names it among its interventions and Colorectal cancer among its conditions. Registry record only: no result has been read by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Trial
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: pipeline; ctgov-ingest
- Registry id: NCT00002893
- Phase: 3
- Setting: CHEMOTHERAPY CHOICES IN ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER: A RANDOMISED TRIAL COMPARING 2 DURATIONS AND 3 SYSTEMIC CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS IN THE PALLIATIVE TREATMENT OF ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER
- Sponsor: Medical Research Council
- Enrolled: 900

## Sources

- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00002893: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00002893

## Connected records

- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/)
- drugs: [Fluorouracil (5-FU)](https://onco.cc/drugs/fluorouracil/), [Leucovorin (folinic acid)](https://onco.cc/drugs/leucovorin/), [Raltitrexed](https://onco.cc/drugs/raltitrexed/)

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