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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00051545
Date of registration: 13/01/2003
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: LEO Pharma
Public title: Seocalcitol Versus Placebo in the Adjuvant Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Scientific title: Seocalcitol Versus Placebo in the Adjuvant Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Efficacy of Seocalcitol (EB 1089) Enteric-Coated Capsules (5 ug) or Placebo in Prolonging Time to Relapse Following Intended Curative Resection or Percutaneous Ablative Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Date of first enrolment: November 1999
Target sample size: 608
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00051545
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Canada France Italy Spain United Kingdom
Contacts
Name:     Hanne Hvidberg, MScPharm PhD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  LEO Pharma
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Hospital in- or out patients

- Either sex

- 18 to 75 years of age

- With hepatocellular carcinoma treated successfully with surgical resection or
percutaneous ablative treatment within 4 and 8 weeks, respectively, prior to
inclusion.

- All patients must give their signed informed consent to join the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients previously treated with any anti-cancer therapy for HCC except for surgical
resection and percutaneous ablative therapy

- Patients treated with chemotherapy or other anti-cancer therapy (except surgical
resection or percutaneous ablative treatment) in the previous 4 weeks

- Patients with another primary tumor except basocellular carcinoma of the skin or in
situ carcinoma of the cervix within the last 2 years

- With a history of renal stone(s)

- With a life expectancy < 3 months

- WHO performance status 3 or 4.

- Patients with hypercalcemia (ionised serum calcium > 1.35 mmol/l or albumin corrected
serum calcium > 2.68 mmol/l), previous/current calcium metabolic disease, taking
calcium-lowering therapy or medication known to affect systemic calcium metabolism,
or with marked laboratory abnormalities.

- Patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma, with known extrahepatic metastases,
Okuda stage III disease and patients with a Child-Pugh score of C are also excluded.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Liver Neoplasms
Intervention(s)
Drug: Seocalcitol
Primary Outcome(s)
Time to relapse, relapse being defined as the first recurrence of HCC (intra- or extrahepatic).
Secondary Outcome(s)
Length of hospital stay
Time to distant recurrence of HCC
Time to second primary HCC
Tumour marker (alpha-fetoprotein AFP)
Adverse events
Survival
Time to development of metastases
Laboratory safety examinations
Tumour measurements
Dose of Seocalcitol
Quality of life
Secondary ID(s)
EBC 9802 INT
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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