Status:

COMPLETED

Docetaxel and Capecitabine in Advanced Gastric Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Conditions:

Stomach Neoplasm

Neoplasm Metastasis

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-75 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Up to date there is no worldwide accepted standard chemotherapy for the 1st-line treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer.A combination of epirubicin, cisplatin and 5-FU (ECF) is the best ex...

Detailed Description

Patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma who did not receive any prior chemotherapy for advanced disease can be enrolled in the study. Patients are treated with oral capeci...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the stomach or the GE-junction.
  • Patients with distant metastases or patients with locally advanced disease who are not curatively operable proven by laparoscopy or patients with a recurrence after gastrectomy.
  • Patients who did not receive any prior palliative chemotherapy. An adjuvant chemotherapy is allowed.
  • Age between 18 and 75 years.
  • Sufficient bone marrow function defined as leucocytes \> 3.0 Gpt/l, thrombocytes \> 100 Gpt/l
  • Sufficient liver function defined as bilirubin \< 1.5 mg/dl (1.5 x ULN), ALT and AST \< 3 x ULN.
  • Sufficient renal function defined as serum creatinine \< 1.25 x ULN, or creatinine clearance \> 60 ml/min calculated according to Cockroft-Gault
  • Contraception in patients with reproductive potential.
  • Karnofsky-performance-index at least 60%
  • Measurable tumor lesions.
  • Written informed consent of the patient.

Exclusion

  • Karnofsky-performance-index less or equal 50%.
  • Patients who already received a palliative first-line chemotherapy.
  • Prior second malignancy, except basal cell carcinoma of the skin or curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix.
  • Parallel radiation therapy
  • Uncontrolled infection.
  • CNS-metastasis
  • Other severe medical disease
  • Prior major surgery for less than 2 weeks
  • Parallel treatment with other experimental therapies.
  • Parallel treatment with any other therapy aiming against the tumor.
  • Chronic diarrhea, subileus.
  • Chronic inflammatory bowel disease or intestinal obstruction.
  • Unable to take oral medication.
  • Pregnancy or breast feeding.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2004

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

December 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

80 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00142038

Start Date

March 1 2004

End Date

December 1 2007

Last Update

April 18 2007

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Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Dept. of Hematology and Oncology

Berlin, Germany, 13353