The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit was located in Cambridge and was established in 2001. It was based within the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, which in turn is situated on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

During the past decade, MRC Cancer Unit conducted 4 clinical trials. In the 10-year time frame, 4 clinical trials started and 0 clinical trials were completed, i.e. on average, 0% percent of trials that started reached the finish line to date. In the past 5 years, 2 clinical trials started and 0 clinical trials were completed. i.e. 0% of trials that started reached the finish line.

In terms of collaborators to trials, out of the total clinical trials conducted in "MRC Cancer Unit" #1 collaborator was "University of Nottingham" with 1 trials as a collaborator. Other collaborators include -1 different institutions and companies that were collaborators in the rest 1 trials.

According to Clinical.Site data, the most researched conditions in "MRC Cancer Unit" are "Barrett Esophagus" (2 trials), "Barrett's Oesophagus" (1 trials), "Esophageal Neoplasms" (1 trials), "Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer" (1 trials) and "Reflux Esophagitis" (1 trials). Many other conditions were trialed in "MRC Cancer Unit" in a lesser frequency.

Most popular intervention types in "MRC Cancer Unit" are "Diagnostic Test" (2 trials), "Device" (1 trials) and "Other" (1 trials). Other intervention types were less common.

The name of intervention was led by "Assessment of the panel of molecular biomarkers: IM-SCORE, TFF3 protein expression, methylation panel, p53 mutation" (1 trials), "Cytosponge test" (1 trials), "Double bite biopsy technique" (1 trials), "Endoscopy with Polyscope (Polydiagnost TM) coupled with Multi-Spectral Imaging light-source" (1 trials) and "Narrow band imaging (NBI)" (1 trials). Other intervention names were less common.

The vast majority of trials in "MRC Cancer Unit" are 4 trials for "All" genders.

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Out of the total trials that were conducted in MRC Cancer Unit, 0 "Phase 1" clinical trials were conducted, 0 "Phase 2" clinical trials and 0 "Phase 3" clinical trials were conducted as well. "Phase 4" trials included 0 trials, and there were also 3 trials that are defined as “Not Applicable".

MRC Cancer Unit has several departments that took part in Clinical trials: "Nationale Institute for Cancer Research" - 4 trials