Laparoscopic-Assisted Surgery Compared With Open Surgery in Treating Patients With Colon Cancer
Completed · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
RATIONALE: Less invasive types of surgery may help reduce the number of side effects and improve recovery. It is not yet known which type of surgery is more effective for colon cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of laparoscopic-assisted colectomy with open colectomy in treating patients who have colon cancer.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00002575
- Run by
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
- People needed
- 810
- Starts
- 1994-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-11-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-07-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- MBCCOP - Gulf Coast — Mobile, Alabama, United States
- CCOP - Greater Phoenix — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
- St. Mary's Hospital — Rogers, Arkansas, United States
- Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope — Duarte, California, United States
- Scripps Clinic — La Jolla, California, United States
- University of California San Diego Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
- Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California, United States
- Saint Mary Medical Center - Long Beach — Long Beach, California, United States
- CCOP - Bay Area Tumor Institute — Oakland, California, United States
- Naval Medical Center - Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
- Sutter Cancer Center — Sacramento, California, United States
- Veterans Affairs Satellite Clinic - Sacramento — Sacramento, California, United States
- Naval Medical Center - San Diego — San Diego, California, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
- CCOP - Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital — Santa Rosa, California, United States
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Vallejo — Vallejo, California, United States
- University of Colorado Cancer Center — Denver, Colorado, United States
- CCOP - Colorado Cancer Research Program, Inc. — Denver, Colorado, United States
- Hartford Hospital — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services — Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Baptist Regional Cancer Institute - Jacksonville — Jacksonville, Florida, United States
- Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States
- CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center — Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Huntsville Hospital System — Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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