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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 4 February 2013
Main ID:  NCT00470353
Date of registration: 03/05/2007
Primary sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Public title: Cholecalciferol and Calcium Carbonate in Treating Patients With Colon Cancer That Has Been Removed by Surgery
Scientific title: A Pilot Study of Low and High Dose Vitamin Cholecalciferol (D3) With Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Correlates in Patients With Resected Colon Cancer
Date of first enrolment: September 2006
Target sample size: 8
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00470353
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Marwan Fakih, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- History of colon cancer

- Underwent resection and has been in clinical remission for = 1 year

- No inflammatory bowel disease

- No familial adenomatous polyposis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- ECOG performance status 0-2

- Life expectancy > 1 year

- No genitourinary stones within the past 5 years

- No severe comorbid conditions, such as uncompensated heart failure or active
uncontrolled infection

- No history of hypercalcemia

- No active colostomy

- No contraindications to sigmoidoscopy or mucosal biopsies

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- No prior rectal surgery or abdominoperineal resection

- At least 1 month since prior vitamin D or calcium supplementation

- Prior vitamin D supplemental intake = 800 IU per day

- At least 1 year since prior chemotherapy

- No prior radiotherapy to the pelvis

- No concurrent active anticoagulation

- Patients who stop anticoagulation therapy at the time of mucosal biopsy are
eligible

- No other concurrent supplemental calcium or vitamin D



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Colorectal Cancer
Intervention(s)
Dietary Supplement: calcium carbonate
Dietary Supplement: cholecalciferol
Other: immunohistochemistry staining method
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Other: pharmacological study
Procedure: biopsy
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in proliferative labeling index of normal rectal mucosa as measured by Ki67 IHC staining [Time Frame: No]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Changes in serum levels of 25-OH-D3, 1,25-OH-D3, 24,25-OH-D3, calcium, and parathyroid hormone [Time Frame: No]
Effects of cholecalciferol on biological markers of proliferation (i.e., cyclin D1, protein kinase C, vitamin D receptor, p21, and p27) as measured by IHC at baseline and after 6 months of study treatment [Time Frame: No]
Safety of high-dose cholecalciferol supplementation as measured over 2 years [Time Frame: over 2 years]
Secondary ID(s)
I 78706
RPCI-I-78706
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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