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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00303745
Date of registration: 15/03/2006
Primary sponsor: Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive
Public title: Irinotecan With or Without Capecitabine as Second-Line Therapy in Treating Older Patients With Progressive, Metastatic Colorectal Cancer That Cannot Be Removed By Surgery
Scientific title: Randomized Study of Second-Line Therapy Comprising Irinotecan With or Without Capecitabine in Patients Aged At Least 75 Years With Colorectal Cancer
Date of first enrolment: June 2006
Target sample size: 78
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00303745
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:   Emmanuel Mitry, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Hopital Ambroise Pare
Name:   Thomas Aparicio
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Affiliation:  Hopital Bichat - Claude Bernard
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Histologically confirmed metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum

- Unresectable disease

- Documented progressive disease during first-line/palliative chemotherapy

- Measurable disease = 1 cm that is outside prior radiation field

- No brain metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- WHO performance status 0-2

- Life expectancy = 3 months

- No contraindication to chemotherapy

- Creatinine clearance = 40 mL/min

- Absolute neutrophil count = 1,500/mm^3

- Platelet count = 100,000/mm^3

- Alkaline phosphatase = 3 times normal (5 times normal if hepatic involvement)

- Bilirubin = 1.5 times normal

- Transaminases = 5 times normal

- No symptomatic coronary disease or cardiac insufficiency

- No enteropathy or chronic diarrhea

- No unresolved intestinal occlusion or subocclusion

- No history of severe unexpected reaction to a fluoropyrimidine

- No other active malignancy in the past 2 years

- No hypersensitivity to irinotecan hydrochloride or its excipients

- No hypersensitivity to capecitabine or fluorouracil

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- See Disease Characteristics

- No prior extensive resection

- No concurrent sorivudine or similar analogs (e.g., brivudine)

- No other concurrent anticancer therapy

- Concurrent radiotherapy allowed for nontarget lesions



Age minimum: 75 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Colorectal Cancer
Intervention(s)
Drug: capecitabine
Drug: irinotecan hydrochloride
Primary Outcome(s)
Objective response [Time Frame: No]
Stable disease rate [Time Frame: No]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Progression-free and overall survival [Time Frame: No]
Quality of life [Time Frame: No]
Tolerability [Time Frame: Yes]
Secondary ID(s)
CDR0000453857
EU-20545
EUDRACT-2004-004742-40
FFCD-0305
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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