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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

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Advanced epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube carcinoma
Cancer
Ovarian, 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
Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

N/A

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Overall survival
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> 1. Progression-free survival<br> 2. Quality of life<br>
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