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Register: ChiCTR
Last refreshed on: 18 April 2017
Main ID:  ChiCTR-TRC-11001194
Date of registration: 2011-02-21
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Second Military Medical University
Public title: A Study of pemetrexed/cisplatin in chemotherapy-naive Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Scientific title: A Study of pemetrexed/cisplatin in chemotherapy-naive Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Date of first enrolment: 2008-03-11
Target sample size: experiment arm:108;control:106;
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=8345
Study type:  Interventional study
Study design:  Randomized parallel controlled trial  
Phase:  II (Phase II study)
Countries of recruitment
China
Contacts
Name: Yan SUN   
Address:  17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100210
Telephone: +86 010 87788519
Email: hejia63@yahoo.com
Affiliation:  Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Name: Jia He   
Address:  800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai, China 200433
Telephone: +86 21 81871441
Email: hejia63@yahoo.com
Affiliation:  Second Military Medical University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Eligible patients had histologically or cytologically confirmed, newly diagnosed unresectable stage IIIB/IV or recurrent (after surgery or radiotherapy) NSCLC;
2. patients with at least one unidimensionally measurable lesion according to RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors), had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG);
3. with performance status of 0 or 1, had a life expectancy of at least 12 weeks;
4. Aged older than 18 years;
5. had adequate hematologic, hepatic and renal function;
6. Patients with CNS metastases were accepted, but patients with sympotomatic disease were not;
7. No other malignant tumor;
8. Stopping chemotherapy for more than 4 weeks;
9. Signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria: 1. pregnant/nursing women; history of other malignancies;
2. severe systemic disease that would potentially precluded chemotherapy treatment;
3. severe or uncontrolled conditions requiring medication or active infections;
4. and treatment with an investigational drug;
5. Patients were also excluded if they were unable to interrupt non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or if they were unable or unwilling to take folic acid, vitamin B12, or dexamethasone.


Age minimum: 18
Age maximum: 75
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
chemotherapy-naive NSCLC
Intervention(s)
experiment arm:pemetrexed at 500mg/m2 over 10 min plus cisplatin 75mg/m2 on day 1;control:gemcitabine 1,000 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 plus cisplatin 75mg/m2 on day 1 ;
Primary Outcome(s)
time to progression;progression-free survival;
Secondary Outcome(s)
Clinical benefit rate;Time to treatment failure;Overall response rate;
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
QILU Pharmceutical Co., Ltd.
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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