Status:

COMPLETED

Selenium in Preventing Cancer Recurrence in Patients With Bladder Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

KU Leuven

Collaborating Sponsors:

Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie

Conditions:

Bladder Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-100 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing, or coming back. The use of selenium may keep bladder cancer from growing or coming back. It is not yet know...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * To determine the effect of selenium, when administered with standard care, in preventing the recurrence of bladder cancer in patients with non-muscle-invasive transitional cell...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histopathologically confirmed non-muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder (\< pT2 )
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Able to swallow pills
  • Not pregnant
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years
  • No known hypersensitivity or adverse reactions to selenium
  • No other serious medical or psychiatric illness that would preclude giving informed consent
  • No condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with the safety of the patient or the evaluation of the study objectives
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • More than 30 days since prior daily dietary supplements containing selenium
  • No other concurrent selenium (contained in individual supplements, antioxidant mix, or multivitamin) intake
  • No concurrent participation in another study involving a medical, surgical, nutritional, or lifestyle intervention
  • Concurrent participation in the follow-up phase of another study allowed

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    September 1 2009

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    December 1 2015

    Estimated Enrollment :

    276 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00729287

    Start Date

    September 1 2009

    End Date

    December 1 2015

    Last Update

    May 12 2016

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    Department of public Health, KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium, B-3000