There are about 10460 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Australia. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
This study will assess the comfort of subcutaneous injections of NeoRecormon and darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp) in patients with renal anemia. Eligible patients will be randomized to receive comparable subcutaneous injections of either darbepoetin alfa (30 micrograms) or NeoRecormon (6000IU). They will then be crossed over to the alternative treatment arm for further treatment. After each injection pain will be assessed using the visual analogue scale (VAS) and 6-point verbal rating scale (VRS), and patient preference will be assessed. The anticipated time on study treatment is <3 months, and the target sample size is <100 individuals.
The purpose of this study is to collect blood samples from SMART study participants to use in future genetic studies.
The World Health Organisation has warned that an influenza pandemic is inevitable. The avian influenza H5N1 virus strain is one of the leading candidates to cause the next influenza pandemic. The elderly are likely to be a special target group for vaccination; therefore, this study will test the safety and immunogenicity of a H5N1 pandemic influenza vaccine in a healthy elderly population.
To compare the disease free survival time and safety of sunitinib with placebo in adjuvant treatment patients at high risk of recurrent kidney cancer after surgery.
This study was designed to evaluate and compare the safety and efficacy of an oral dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor, lapatinib, versus placebo in women with early-stage ErbB2-overexpressing breast cancer who have completed their primary neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy and have no clinical or radiographic evidence of disease.
This is a study to evaluate the effectiveness of erlotinib compared with a placebo sugar pill following complete surgical removal of the tumor with or without chemotherapy after surgery in Stage IB-IIIA NSCLC patients.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of AZD6244 (ARRY-142886)versus capecitabine in patients with advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer who have failed first-line therapy with gemcitabine. Following baseline assessments, a minimum of 64 patients in approximately 5-6 centers from the US will be treated with either AZD6244 or capecitabine. Treatment will be continued for as long as the patients receive clinical benefit. The status of all patients will be checked (whether they are still taking treatment or not) approximately 3 months after the last patient has entered the study.
To demonstrate that new drugs work, many complex multidose studies are often required. The intent of this study is to use Ibuprofen as an example of a marketed pain relief drug to validate a simpler single dose model for future assessment of new pain drugs.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as gemtuzumab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. Giving combination chemotherapy together with gemtuzumab may kill more cancer cells. It is not yet known whether combination chemotherapy is more effective with or without gemtuzumab in treating patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying combination chemotherapy and gemtuzumab to see how well they work compared with combination chemotherapy alone in treating young patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.
The compound GW642444 has previously been found to be well tolerated with no significant side effects in subjects with asthma and healthy volunteers. This study will assess the safety and tolerability of GW642444 in subjects with COPD in order to obtain information to support dosing in a broader population of subjects with COPD