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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00142038
Other study ID # AGST-Magen-CapDoc-04
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
First received September 1, 2005
Last updated April 17, 2007
Start date March 2004
Est. completion date December 2007

Study information

Verified date April 2007
Source Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Up to date there is no worldwide accepted standard chemotherapy for the 1st-line treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer.A combination of epirubicin, cisplatin and 5-FU (ECF) is the best examined combination and widely used. Recent studies (Thuss-Patience et al, J. Clin. Oncol. 2005) could show that a combination of docetaxel and 5-FU might be similarly effective as ECF. 5-FU and docetaxel +/- cisplatin combinations are investigated by many groups and may be a future reference treatment. Many data suggest that 5-FU infusion can be replaced by oral capecitabine with equal efficacy.

As docetaxel/5-FU is probably similarly effective as epirubicin/cisplatin/5-FU and a replacement of 5-FU infusion by capecitabine makes the chemotherapy more comfortable for the patient we investigate in this study a chemotherapy of docetaxel and capecitabine as 1st-line therapy for metastatic or advanced gastric cancer.


Description:

Patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma who did not receive any prior chemotherapy for advanced disease can be enrolled in the study.

Patients are treated with oral capecitabine 1000mg/sqm twice per day on the days 1-14 and docetaxel 75 mg/sqm on day 1 as a 1 hour i.v. infusion. chemotherapy is repeated every 21 days. Staging by imaging is performed every 2 cycles.

After 40 included patients an amendment was done and the starting of chemotherapy has been reduced to further improve tolerability. Starting dose of docetaxel was amended to 60 mg/sqm, d1, and starting dose of capecitabine reduced to 800 mg/sqm twice per day, d1-14. The patient number to be included was increased to 70 pts.

Therapy is continued up to tumor progression to a maximum of 10 cycles. Therapy is stopped in case of severe side effects, tumor progression or withdrawal of consent.

This investigator initiated study is supported by Hoffmann-La Roche and by Sanofi-Aventis.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 80
Est. completion date December 2007
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years to 75 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the stomach or the GE-junction.

- Patients with distant metastases or patients with locally advanced disease who are not curatively operable proven by laparoscopy or patients with a recurrence after gastrectomy.

- Patients who did not receive any prior palliative chemotherapy. An adjuvant chemotherapy is allowed.

- Age between 18 and 75 years.

- Sufficient bone marrow function defined as leucocytes > 3.0 Gpt/l, thrombocytes > 100 Gpt/l

- Sufficient liver function defined as bilirubin < 1.5 mg/dl (1.5 x ULN), ALT and AST < 3 x ULN.

- Sufficient renal function defined as serum creatinine < 1.25 x ULN, or creatinine clearance > 60 ml/min calculated according to Cockroft-Gault

- Contraception in patients with reproductive potential.

- Karnofsky-performance-index at least 60%

- Measurable tumor lesions.

- Written informed consent of the patient.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Karnofsky-performance-index less or equal 50%.

- Patients who already received a palliative first-line chemotherapy.

- Prior second malignancy, except basal cell carcinoma of the skin or curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix.

- Parallel radiation therapy

- Uncontrolled infection.

- CNS-metastasis

- Other severe medical disease

- Prior major surgery for less than 2 weeks

- Parallel treatment with other experimental therapies.

- Parallel treatment with any other therapy aiming against the tumor.

- Chronic diarrhea, subileus.

- Chronic inflammatory bowel disease or intestinal obstruction.

- Unable to take oral medication.

- Pregnancy or breast feeding.

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Intervention

Drug:
Docetaxel

Capecitabine


Locations

Country Name City State
Germany Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Dept. of Hematology and Oncology Berlin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (1)

Thuss-Patience PC, Kretzschmar A, Repp M, Kingreen D, Hennesser D, Micheel S, Pink D, Scholz C, Dörken B, Reichardt P. Docetaxel and continuous-infusion fluorouracil versus epirubicin, cisplatin, and fluorouracil for advanced gastric adenocarcinoma: a randomized phase II study. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Jan 20;23(3):494-501. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Response Rate
Secondary Median Survival
Secondary Time to Tumor Progression
Secondary Toxicity
Secondary Quality of Life
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