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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00002615
Date of registration: 01/11/1999
Primary sponsor: Medical Research Council
Public title: Surgery With or Without Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Stomach Cancer
Scientific title: A RANDOMISED, CONTROLLED TRIAL OF PRE- AND POST-OPERATIVE CHEMOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH OPERABLE GASTRIC CANCER
Date of first enrolment: June 1994
Target sample size: 500
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00002615
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
Name:   William H. Allum, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Histologically proven resectable stage II or III adenocarcinoma of the stomach

- No evidence of locally inoperable or distant metastases on chest x-ray and any
combination of abdominal ultrasound, CT scan, or laparoscopy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

- Any age

Performance status:

- WHO 0-1

Hematopoietic:

- Not specified

Hepatic:

- Not specified

Renal:

- Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

- No clinical evidence of uncontrolled angina pectoris, cardiac failure, or significant
uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia

Other:

- No medical contraindication to study therapy

- No other prior malignancy except nonmelanomatous skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of
the cervix

- Not pregnant

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

- Not specified

Chemotherapy:

- No prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

- Not specified

Radiotherapy:

- No prior radiotherapy

Surgery:

- See Disease Characteristics



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Gastric Cancer
Intervention(s)
Drug: cisplatin
Drug: epirubicin hydrochloride
Drug: fluorouracil
Procedure: conventional surgery
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
CDR0000063914
EU-94035
MRC-ST02
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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