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eoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy with Metformin for locally advanced pancreatic cancer

Phase 2
Recruiting
Conditions
pancreatic cancer
D010190
Registration Number
JPRN-jRCTs011180011
Lead Sponsor
Taketomi Akinobu
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria

1) Certification of pancreatic cancer (histological confirmation is desired).
2) Beyond borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (NCCN guideline 2013 ver.1).
3) No prior anti-tumor therapy for pancreatic cancer.
4) Patient age: over 20 years old, 80 years old or less.
5) Performance status (ECOG) is 0 or 1.
6) Essential organ function is preserved.
WBC counts: over 3000/mm3
Neutrophil counts: over 2000/mm3
Platelets counts: over10^4/mm3
Hb: over 9 g/dl
TBil: below 3.0 mg/dl
AST/ALT: 5 times less than the upper limit of normal
Serum creatinine: below 1.3mg/dl (male) 1.2mg/dl (female)
7) Patients with type 2 diabetes
8) Written consent has been obtained from the patient himself.

Exclusion Criteria

1) Pulmonary fibrosis or interstitial pneumonia
2) severe infectious disease
3) Patients with uncontrolled heart failure , angina, arrhythmias, and myocardial infarction within 6 months after the onset.
4) uncontrolled diabetes
5) Patients with active infection
6) Patients with pregnant women, the possibility or intention of lactating and pregnant.
7)severe drug allergy
8)peptic ulcer and bleeding
9)obvious neurological disorder or mental disorder
10)active double cancer
11)Patients who are already administered metformin
12)other severe complications
13)The patients who are judged inadequate to the present study by Principal investigator or researcher.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
the ratio of histological remnant cancer cells
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1) resection rate<br>2) prognosis (overall survival on 2 years from starting neoadjuvant chemoradio therapy)
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