Treatment for bowel (colorectal) cancer
All cancer treatments have to be fully researched before they can be used for everyone. This is so we know that they work, they are better than the treatments already available and they are safe.
Research is looking at the causes, diagnosis and treatment of bowel cancer. It aims to prevent bowel cancer and improve tests, treatment, and ways of coping with symptoms and side effects.
Go to Cancer Research UK’s clinical trials database if you are looking for a trial for bowel cancer in the UK. You need to talk to your specialist if there are any trials that you think you might be able to take part in.
Find a bowel cancer clinical trial
Researchers are looking at new ways of improving surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted and immunotherapy treatments for bowel cancer.
Our clinical trials database has open, closed and result summaries of trials in the UK.
Trials aim to find out if a new test or treatment is safe or works better than current ones.
Find out about what researchers should tell you before you agree to take part in a trial.
If you see a trial you're interested in, discuss it with your specialist or GP.
Find out what research the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK is supporting.
Last reviewed: 08 Nov 2024
Next review due: 08 Nov 2027
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