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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  PACTR201207000396219
Date of registration: 19/07/2012
Primary sponsor: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Public title: Adjuvant topical 5fluorouracil (5FU) for ocular surface squamous neoplasia
Scientific title: A double-masked randomised placebo-controlled trial of adjuvant topical 5-fluorouracil (5FU) treatment following surgical excision of ocular surface squamous neoplasia.
Date of first enrolment: 2012-08-03
Target sample size: 504
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  HTTP://www.pactr.org/ATMWeb/appmanager/atm/atmregistry?da=true&tno=PACTR201207000396219
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,
Randomised,
Simple randomisation using a radomisation table created by STATA software,
Numbered eyedrop bottles,
 
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Stephen  Gichuhi
Address:  PO Box 347 00202 Nairobi Kenya
Telephone: +2540-722873059
Email: sgichuhi@uonbi.ac.ke
Affiliation:  Senior Lecturer & Consultant Ophthalmologist
Name: Stephen  Gichuhi
Address:  PO Box 347 00202 Nairobi Kenya
Telephone: +2540-722873059
Email: sgichuhi@uonbi.ac.ke
Affiliation:  Senior Lecturer & Consultant Ophthalmologist
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (i) Histologically proven ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN)
(ii) Healed excision site.
(iii) At least 18 years of age.

Exclusion criteria: (i) Prior treatment with topical or subconjunctival antimetabolite drugs such as 5FU, Mitomycin C (MMC) to the same eye or systemic cytotoxic drugs.
(ii) Patients who may need more radical surgery than a simple excision eg. features suggestive of metastasis.
(iii) Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.


Age minimum: 18 Year
Age maximum: 85 Year
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN)
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Development of histopathologically confirmed recurrent OSSN anytime during the first year after the primary surgery.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Adverse effects of using topical 5-FU 1% four times daily for one month.
Secondary ID(s)
6097
ECCT/12/04/01
P459/11/2011
Source(s) of Monetary Support
British Council for Prevention of Blindness (BCPB)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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