First-Line Gemcitabine Chemotherapy With Our Without Sunitinib In Advanced or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

NCT ID: NCT00673504

Last Updated: 2011-12-01

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

105 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-04-30

Study Completion Date

2011-11-30

Brief Summary

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Primary objective: to evaluate whether the addition of sunitinib prolongates the Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving first-line gemcitabine chemotherapy.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Pancreatic Cancer

Keywords

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cancer pancreatic cancer gemcitabine sunitinib Phase 2

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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A

Gemcitabine + Sunitinib

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Gemcitabine + Sunitinib

Intervention Type DRUG

Gemcitabine 1.000 mg/m2, d1,8q3weeks Sunitinib 50 mg/day (2weeks on/1weeks off)

B

Gemcitabine

Group Type OTHER

Gemcitabine

Intervention Type DRUG

1.000 mg/m2 d1,8,15q4weeks

Interventions

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Gemcitabine + Sunitinib

Gemcitabine 1.000 mg/m2, d1,8q3weeks Sunitinib 50 mg/day (2weeks on/1weeks off)

Intervention Type DRUG

Gemcitabine

1.000 mg/m2 d1,8,15q4weeks

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients who suffer from locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer
* Patients with measurable disease (at least one uni-dimensionally measurable target lesion by CT-scan or MRI) according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST).
* ECOG performance status 0 to 1
* Signed written informed consent.
* White blood cell count (WBC) \>= 3x10\^9/L with neutrophils \>= 1.5 x 10\^9/L, platelet count \>= 100x10\^9/L, hemoglobin \>= 5.6 mmol/L (9 g/dL).
* Total bilirubin \< 2 x upper limit of normal.
* AST and ALT \< 2.5 x upper limit of normal, or \< 5 x upper limit of normal in case of liver metastases.
* Serum creatinine \< 1.5 x upper limit of normal
* Normal ECG without QT prolongation

Exclusion Criteria

* Resectable pancreatic cancer
* Previous chemotherapy (for adjuvant or metastatic disease)
* Any investigational drug within the 30 days before inclusion.
* Prior use of sunitinib or other multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitor
* Pregnancy (absence to be confirmed by beta-hCG test) or lactation period.
* Men or women of child-bearing potential who are sexually active and unwilling to use a medically acceptable method of contraception during the trial.
* Clinically symptomatic brain or meningeal metastasis. (known or suspected)
* Cardiac arrhythmias requiring anti-arrhythmics (excluding beta blockers or digoxin).
* History of any of the following cardiac events within the past 6 months: myocardial infarction (including severe/unstable angina; coronary/peripheral artery bypass graft; symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF) \> NYHA Class II; cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic attack; pulmonary embolism
* Uncontrolled severe hypertension (failure of diastolic blood pressure to fall below 90 mm Hg despite the use of up to 3 anti-hypertensive drugs
* Acute or sub-acute intestinal occlusion or history of inflammatory bowel disease or chronic diarrhea
* Previous malignancy (other than pancreatic cancer) in the last 5 years except basal cell cancer of the skin, pre-invasive cancer of the cervix or superficial bladder tumor \[Ta, Tis and T1\].
* History of organ allograft
* Patients requiring long-term cortisone therapy
* Patients requiring oral anticoagulation treatment (such as marcoumar)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Non-Profit Otrganization Oncology

Locations

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Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig

Braunschweig, , Germany

Site Status

Universitätsklinikum Essen

Essen, , Germany

Site Status

Krankenhaus

Frankfurt, , Germany

Site Status

Klinikum der J. W. Goethe Universität; Zentrum der Inneren Medizin

Frankfurt, , Germany

Site Status

Internistisches Facharztzentrum

Frankfurt, , Germany

Site Status

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Medizinische Fakultät

Halle, , Germany

Site Status

Facharztpraxis

Heidelberg, , Germany

Site Status

Klinikum Lüdenscheid

Lüdenscheid, , Germany

Site Status

Klinikum Nürnberg Nord

Nuremberg, , Germany

Site Status

Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus

Stuttgart, , Germany

Site Status

Kantonsspital St. Gallen

Sankt Gallen, , Switzerland

Site Status

Countries

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Austria Germany Switzerland

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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C-II-004 / 2007-005022-71

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id