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Clinical Trials/NCT00813696
NCT00813696
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Phase 3

Gemcitabine vs Gemcitabine + Cisplatin in the Treatment of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (Stage II III IV)

Istituti Tumori Giovanni Paolo II42 sites in 1 country400 target enrollmentApril 2002

Overview

Phase
Phase 3
Intervention
gemcitabine
Conditions
Pancreatic Cancer
Sponsor
Istituti Tumori Giovanni Paolo II
Enrollment
400
Locations
42
Primary Endpoint
overall survival
Last Updated
17 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the addition of cisplatin to gemcitabine in the treatment of patients with inoperable advanced pancreatic cancer.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
April 2002
End Date
September 2009
Last Updated
17 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Istituti Tumori Giovanni Paolo II

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Histologic or cytologic diagnosis pancreatic cancer
  • inoperable stage II or stage III or IV disease(UICC, 1997)
  • Age 18 to 75 years
  • Karnofsky Performance status \> 50
  • Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

  • Previous chemotherapy
  • Cerebral metastases
  • Previous malignancies in past 5 years excluding adequately treated basal or spinocellular skin cancers and insitu cervical cancer
  • Leukocytes \< 4000 or neutrophils \< 2000 or platelets \< 100000 or hemoglobin \< 10 g/dl
  • Creatinine value \> upper normal limit
  • GOT or GPT \> 2.5 times upper normal limit or bilirubin \> 1.5 times upper normal limit in absence of hepatic metastases
  • Congestive heart failure, severe cardiac arrhythmias or coronary ischemic disease
  • Other concurrent disease that would, in the investigator's opinion, contraindicate the use of the study drugs
  • Inability to provide informed consent
  • Inability to comply with follow-up.

Arms & Interventions

A

cisplatin + gemcitabine

Intervention: gemcitabine

A

cisplatin + gemcitabine

Intervention: cisplatin

B

gemcitabine

Intervention: gemcitabine

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

overall survival

Time Frame: 9 months

Secondary Outcomes

  • clinical benefit response(baseline and at end of every cycle of therapy)
  • quality of life(baseline and at end of every cycle of therapy)
  • objective response(after 7 weeks of therapy)
  • time to progression(6 months)

Study Sites (42)

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