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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN33398289
Date of registration: 30/09/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2005 Update - Department of Health (UK)
Public title: A 2 x 2 randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline (trental) +/- high dose vitamins for radiation induced bowel toxicity: the ROBOTS 2 trial
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Date of first enrolment: 26/03/2004
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN33398289
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Treatment)  
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Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
Name: Jervoise    Andreyev
Address:  Medicine Section Royal Marsden NHS Trust Downs Road SM2 5PT Sutton, Surrey United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8643 8901
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients referred at least three months after pelvic radiotherapy
2. Patients must have gastrointestinal symptoms which were not present before radiotherapy
3. Must have undergone adequate gastroenterological assessment to reach a diagnosis
4. Must have residual gastrointestinal symptoms after three months of best therapy

Exclusion criteria: 1. Previous cerebrovascular haemorrhage
2. Previous retinal haemorrhage
3. Liver cirrhosis
4. Symptomatic coronary artery disease
5. Abnormal renal function and creatine clearance
6. History of renal tract stone
7. Evidence of recurrent disease


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Age maximum:
Gender: Not Specified
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning: Radiation injuries
Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning
Radiation injuries
Intervention(s)
Patients will be randomised in a 2 x 2 factorial fashion to:
1. Pentoxifylline (trental)
2. High dose vitamins
3. Pentoxifylline (trental) with high dose vitamins
4. Placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Changes in the bowel toxicity scale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ)
2. Changes in the Vaizey incontinence questionnaire
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
N0258134912
Source(s) of Monetary Support
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (UK), NHS R&D Support Funding (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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