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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 28 January 2013
Main ID:  NCT00006016
Date of registration: 05/07/2000
Primary sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Public title: Thalidomide and Chemoembolization With Doxorubicin in Treating Patients With Liver Cancer That Cannot be Removed by Surgery
Scientific title: An Evaluation of Chronic Thalidomide Administration in Patients Undergoing Chemoembolization for Unresectable Hepatocellular Cancer
Date of first enrolment: May 2000
Target sample size: 75
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00006016
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Alec Goldenberg
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Affiliation:  New York University Langone Medical Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Histologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma

- Ineligible for potentially curative surgical resection

- Must be a candidate for palliative chemoembolization

- MRI must show one or more discrete tumor nodules that can be targeted by
angiography for chemoembolization

- No diffusely infiltrating tumor

- Lesions under consideration for chemoembolization must demonstrate substantial
hypervascularity

- Performance status - ECOG 0-2

- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,200/mm^3

- Hemoglobin at least 8.0 g/dL

- Platelet count at least 50,000/mm^3

- SGOT and SGPT no greater than 5 times normal

- Bilirubin less than 3 mg/dL

- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL

- No other medical condition that would preclude study participation

- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively resected basal cell
skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

- Not pregnant or nursing

- Negative pregnancy test

- Regardless of fertility status:

- All female patients (unless they have undergone a hysterectomy or have been
amenorrheic or postmenopausal for at least 2 years) must use at least 1 highly
active method of contraception AND 1 additional effective method of
contraception at least 4 weeks before, during, and for at least 4 weeks after
study participation

- All male patients (even if they have undergone a successful vasectomy) must use
effective barrier contraception during and for at least 4 weeks after study
participation

- Prior interferon for hepatitis allowed

- No prior biologic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

- No prior chemotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

- No concurrent barbiturates or alcohol



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Adult Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Advanced Adult Primary Liver Cancer
Localized Unresectable Adult Primary Liver Cancer
Intervention(s)
Drug: doxorubicin hydrochloride
Drug: thalidomide
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Primary Outcome(s)
Survival [Time Frame: Up to 18 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
CDR0000068025
N01CM17103
NCI-2012-02352
NYU-9937
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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