A randomised feasibility trial to determine the impact of timing of surgery and chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with advanced epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube carcinoma
- Conditions
- Advanced epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube carcinomaCancerOvarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube carcinoma
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN74802813
- Lead Sponsor
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- Brief Summary
2015 Results article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26002111 results
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 550
1. Clinical and imaging evidence of a pelvic mass with extrapelvic metastatic disease at presentation
2. Randomisation should be carried out within 4 weeks of obtaining clinical and imaging evidence of disease
3. Serum Cancer Antigen (CA 125) / CarcinoEmbryonic Antigen (CEA) ratio >25 (if the serum CA 125/CEA is less than or equal to 25 and the serum CEA is above the upper limit of normal, the patient should undergo investigations to exclude gastrointestinal cancer)
4. Patient planned to receive carboplatin-based chemotherapy
5. Patient fit to undergo protocol treatment and follow-up
6. No concomitant or previous malignancy likely to interfere with protocol treatments or comparisons
7. Written informed consent of the patient
N/A
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Overall survival
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Progression-free survival<br> 2. Quality of life<br>