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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00001437
Date of registration: 03/11/1999
Primary sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Public title: Trial of Pentoxifylline in Patients With Functional Disability Caused by Radiation-Induced Advanced Regional Fibrosis
Scientific title: Trial of Pentoxifylline in Patients With Functional Disability Caused by Radiation-Induced Advanced Regional Fibrosis
Date of first enrolment: June 1995
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00001437
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS:

Regional advanced postradiation fibrosis of the neck, chest wall, pelvis, or extremities
causing measurable impairment of specific function, i.e.: Decreased range of motion,
Weakness, Sensory deficit, Pain requiring narcotics, Significantly altered activities of
daily living.

None of these conditions present either before or during radiotherapy or attributed to
surgery or chemotherapy.

Patients with prostate cancer allowed if prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is less than 4.0
ng/mL and the last 3 PSA values were stable or decreasing. Abnormal bone scan or film
acceptable if consistent with degenerative disease.

No recurrent or metastatic cancer.

No concurrent second cancer.

PRIOR/CONCURRENT THERAPY: At least 3 months since pentoxifylline.

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age: 18 and over.

Performance status: Karnofsky 70%-100% (unrelated to postradiation fibrosis).

CARDIOVASCULAR:

No symptomatic coronary artery disease with frequent anginal episodes necessitating any of
the following during past 6 months: Coronary artery bypass, Angioplasty, Pacemaker
placement, Thrombolytic treatment.

No chronic cardiac failure with persistent hemodynamic abnormality and ejection fraction
less than 40%.

No coagulation, platelet, or vascular disorder that threatens to cause bleeding.

OTHER:

No intolerance to pentoxifylline or other xanthines (e.g., caffeine, theophylline,
theobromine).

No seizure disorder.

No peptic ulcer disease.

Willing to undergo serial evaluations (excluding biopsies, laser Doppler, MRI) by NCI
rehabilitation specialist for documentation and grading of functional disability.

No pregnant or nursing women.

Adequate contraception encouraged in fertile women.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Fibrosis
Radiation Injuries
Intervention(s)
Drug: pentoxifylline
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
95-C-0138
950138
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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