Status:

COMPLETED

Genotype-directed Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Rectal Carcinoma

Lead Sponsor:

Washington University School of Medicine

Conditions:

Rectal Carcinoma

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Determine if genotype-directed neoadjuvant chemoradiation, using information from the thymidylate synthase promoter polymorphism, result in a greater degree of tumor downstaging in high risk patients ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Biopsy proven adenocarcinoma of the rectum
  • Lesion evaluated by surgeon and found to be resectable
  • Stage T3 or T4 disease on radiography or ultrasound
  • Karnofsky Performance Status at \>60
  • Laboratory criteria:
  • Absolute neutrophil count \>= 1.5 K
  • Platelets \>= 100 K
  • Total Bilirubin \<= 2.0;
  • SGOT and Alkaline Phosphatase \<= 2 x upper limit of normal
  • Creatinine \< 2.0
  • Informed consent signed
  • Patients with distant metastatic disease will be eligible if they satisfy all other conditions.

Exclusion

  • Pregnant women, children \< 18 years, or patients unable to give informed consent
  • Patients with a past history of pelvic radiotherapy.
  • Patients with prior malignancy in the past 5 years except: skin cancer or in-situ cervical cancer. However, patients with synchronous adenocarcinomas are eligible provided either (a) the synchronous adenocarcinoma was in a removed pedunculated polyp and did not invade the stalk or (b) the synchronous adenocarcinoma was in a removed polyp that lay within the surgical field (extent of resection would not be changed) or (c) the synchronous adenocarcinoma is smaller than the index rectal cancer and lies completely within the radiation field (clinically favorable second lesion and the extend of radiation and surgery would not be changed).
  • Patients with known allergy to 5-fluorouracil or irinotecan

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2002

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

135 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00682786

Start Date

October 1 2002

End Date

August 1 2010

Last Update

October 6 2017

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Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110