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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00002189
Date of registration: 02/11/1999
Primary sponsor: Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals
Public title: Paclitaxel in Advanced Refractory Kaposi's Sarcoma (AIDS-KS): A Phase II Trial of Paclitaxel From Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals
Scientific title: Paclitaxel in Advanced Refractory Kaposi's Sarcoma (AIDS-KS): A Phase II Trial of Paclitaxel From Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals
Date of first enrolment: May 1997
Target sample size:
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00002189
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Patients must have:

- Microscopically confirmed diagnosis of KS associated with HIV for which systematic
therapy is medically indicated by the presence of at least one of the following:

A. >= 25 mucocutaneous (mouth or skin) lesions. B. Symptomatic visceral involvement. C.
Symptomatic lymphedema (pain).

- Minimum of 5 clearly measurably cutaneous lesions by physical exam or measurable
disease by X-ray, CT or MRI.

- Failed at least one systemic chemotherapy regimen.

Exclusion Criteria

Co-existing Condition:

Patients with the following conditions and symptoms are excluded:

- Less than 2 weeks since major surgery.

- Serious uncontrolled infection. NOTE:

- Must be ruled out by thorough work-up in patients with unexplained fevers, night
sweats, or involuntary weight loss of more than 10% normal weight.

- Leukopenia.

- Thrombocytopenia.

Patients with the following prior conditions are excluded:

- History of angina or myocardial infarction within the past 6 months.

- Second degree or third degree atrioventricular block without a pacemaker.

- Congestive heart failure (poorly controlled).

- History of prior malignancy except:

Completely excised in situ, carcinoma of the cervix or nonmelanomatous skin cancer.

Curatively treated other malignancy with no evidence of disease for at least 5 years.

Prior Medication:

Excluded:

Prior taxane therapy.

Required:

- At least one systemic chemotherapy regimen that failed to maintain significant
benefit. NOTE:

- Intralesional chemotherapy regimens are not considered as prior chemotherapy.

- At least 2 weeks since last dose of prior systemic chemotherapy.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV Infections
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Intervention(s)
Drug: Paclitaxel
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
273A
IX-110-081
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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