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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00022191




Registration number
NCT00022191
Ethics application status
Date submitted
10/08/2001
Date registered
27/01/2003
Date last updated
12/06/2013

Titles & IDs
Public title
Cisplatin Plus Gemcitabine With or Without Paclitaxel in Treating Patients With Stage IV Urinary Tract Cancer
Scientific title
Randomized Phase III Study Comparing Paclitaxel/Cisplatin/Gemcitabine and Cisplatin/Gemcitabine in Patients With Metastatic or Locally Advanced Urothelial Cancer Without Prior Systemic Therapy
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
EORTC-30987
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EORTC-30987
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Bladder Cancer 0 0
Transitional Cell Cancer of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter 0 0
Urethral Cancer 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Bladder - transitional cell cancer
Renal and Urogenital 0 0 0 0
Other renal and urogenital disorders
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Other cancer types
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Kidney

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically confirmed stage IV transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium (pure or mixed) including bladder, urethra, ureter, and renal pelvis

* T4b, any N OR any T, N2-3 OR M1
* Ineligible for surgery or radiotherapy with curative intent
* Measurable or evaluable disease
* No known CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* 18 and over

Performance status:

* WHO 0-1

Life expectancy:

* At least 12 weeks

Hematopoietic:

* WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
* Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
* Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL

Hepatic:

* Bilirubin less than 1.25 times normal
* AST or ALT less than 2.5 times normal

Renal:

* Glomerular filtration rate at least 60 mL/min
* Calcium normal or clinically insignificant

Cardiovascular:

* No clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia
* No congestive heart failure
* No complete bundle branch block
* No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease

Other:

* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after study participation
* No psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical condition that would preclude study compliance
* No grade 3 or 4 infection without neutropenia
* No other serious concurrent systemic disorder that would preclude study therapy
* No mental disorder that would preclude study compliance
* No grade II or greater neuropathy
* No other prior or concurrent malignancy except appropriately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix, basal cell carcinoma of the skin, or incidental prostate cancer (T1, Gleason score no greater than 6, and PSA less than 0.5 ng/mL)

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* No prior investigational biologic agents (e.g., antiangiogenic products, signal transduction pathway inhibitors, immunomodulators, or monoclonal antibody therapy)
* At least 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy

Chemotherapy:

* No prior systemic chemotherapy
* At least 4 weeks since prior local intravesical chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiotherapy:

* See Disease Characteristics
* No more than 1 prior course of radiotherapy
* At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered

Surgery:

* See Disease Characteristics
* Prior urological procedures to relieve urinary tract obstruction and improve renal function allowed (e.g., ureteral stent or percutaneous nephrostomy)
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

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Completed
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Other reasons
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Actual
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Actual
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Actual
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Recruitment in Australia
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Fremantle Hospital - Fremantle
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6160 - Fremantle
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European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Groupe D'Etude des Tumeurs Uro-Genitales
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Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
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Central European Cooperative Oncology Group
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NCIC Clinical Trials Group
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SWOG Cancer Research Network
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Ethics approval
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Summary
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Contacts
Principal investigator
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Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, PhD
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Vall d'Hebron University Hospital
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Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

TypeCitations or Other Details
Journal Bellmunt J, von der Maase H, Mead GM, et al.: Rand... [More Details]