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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN27478455
Date of registration: 19/08/2002
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Public title: A randomised study of continuous infusional 5-fluorouracil with or without bolus mitomycin-C in patients with advanced colorectal cancer
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Date of first enrolment: 13/03/1995
Target sample size: 200
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN27478455
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Multicentre randomised controlled trial (Treatment)  
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Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
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Address:  UKCCCR Register Co-ordinator MRC Clinical Trials Unit 222 Euston Road NW1 2DA London United Kingdom
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Histological evidence of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum not amenable to surgery or radiotherapy
2. Patients evaluable for response must have bi-dimensionally measurable disease
3. Patients with no measurable disease
4. Adequate bone marrow function
5. Serum creatinine within normal range
6. Life expectancy of greater than 3 months
7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2

Exclusion criteria: 1. History of other malignant disease other than non melanotic skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
2. Prior treatment with any cytotoxic agent except adjuvant chemotherapy completed more than 12 months from randomisation
3. Intracerebral metastases or meningeal carcinomatosis
4. Medical contraindications to treatment


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Gender: Not Specified
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Colon, Rectal cancer
Cancer
Malignant neoplasm of other and ill-defined digestive organs
Intervention(s)
1. Regimen one: continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil. The infusion will be given for 12 weeks and for a further 12 weeks in responding patients or patients with stable disease.
2. Regimen two: continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil given as above plus mitomycin-C given every 6 weeks for two courses and to a total of four courses in responding patients or patients with stable disease.
Primary Outcome(s)
Added 05/08/09:
1. tumour response
2. survival
3. toxicity
4. quality of life (QoL)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
COMBAT COIRE
Source(s) of Monetary Support
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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