Octreotide Compared With Loperamide Hydrochloride for Chemotherapy-Related Diarrhea in Patients With Colorectal Cancer
- Conditions
- Colorectal CancerDiarrhea
- Registration Number
- NCT00003057
- Lead Sponsor
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
- Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs such as octreotide and loperamide hydrochloride use different ways to relieve the diarrhea caused by chemotherapy.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of octreotide with loperamide hydrochloride for the treatment of chemotherapy-related diarrhea in patients who have colorectal cancer.
- Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the safety and efficacy of octreotide acetate versus conventional therapy with loperamide hydrochloride for chemotherapy related diarrhea in patients with advanced colorectal malignancies undergoing chemotherapy with fluorouracil or fluorouracil based regimens.
OUTLINE: This is a prospective, randomized, parallel, open label, multicenter study. Patients are stratified by therapy, grade of diarrhea, and prior use of loperamide hydrochloride or octreotide acetate. Patients undergo 1 of 3 treatments. Patients receive either low doses of octreotide (arm A) or high doses of octreotide (arm B) subcutaneously 3 times daily for 5 days. Patients in arm C receive oral doses of loperamide following each unformed stool for 5 days. A diary is completed by patients to record medications and bowel history. Treatment continues if diarrhea persists beyond day 5, but will be considered a treatment failure. If diarrhea continues to worsen, patients are removed from study. All patients are followed for 24 days.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: This study will accrue a total of 500 patients.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 500
Not provided
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (33)
CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
🇺🇸Wilmington, Delaware, United States
CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center
🇺🇸Miami Beach, Florida, United States
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
🇺🇸Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Center
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
🇺🇸Columbia, Missouri, United States
University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
🇺🇸Baltimore, Maryland, United States
University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
🇺🇸Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
CCOP - North Shore University Hospital
🇺🇸Manhasset, New York, United States
North Shore University Hospital
🇺🇸Manhasset, New York, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
CCOP - Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
🇺🇸Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
University of Minnesota Cancer Center
🇺🇸Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute
🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
University of Nebraska Medical Center
🇺🇸Omaha, Nebraska, United States
CCOP - Southeast Cancer Control Consortium
🇺🇸Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
🇺🇸Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
University of California San Diego Cancer Center
🇺🇸La Jolla, California, United States
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
🇺🇸Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
🇺🇸Syracuse, New York, United States
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
🇺🇸Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
CCOP - Syracuse Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York, P.C.
🇺🇸Syracuse, New York, United States
Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
🇺🇸Durham, North Carolina, United States
University of Tennessee, Memphis Cancer Center
🇺🇸Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Vermont Cancer Center
🇺🇸Burlington, Vermont, United States
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
🇺🇸Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Medical University of South Carolina
🇺🇸Charleston, South Carolina, United States
MBCCOP - Massey Cancer Center
🇺🇸Richmond, Virginia, United States
Rhode Island Hospital
🇺🇸Providence, Rhode Island, United States