Low, Intermediate, or High Dose Suramin in Treating Patients With Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer
Completed · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Prostate Cancer
In brief
Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of low, intermediate, and high dose suramin in treating men with stage IV prostate cancer that is refractory to hormone therapy. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which regimen of suramin is more effective for prostate cancer.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00002723
- Run by
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- People needed
- 390
- Starts
- 1996-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-02-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Lakeside Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Carle Cancer Center — Urbana, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Cedar Rapids Oncology Project — Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- CCOP - Ann Arbor Regional — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- CCOP - Kalamazoo — Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
- CCOP - Duluth — Duluth, Minnesota, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Minneapolis — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- CCOP - Metro-Minnesota — Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - East Orange — East Orange, New Jersey, United States
- CCOP - Northern New Jersey — Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
- Albert Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
- CCOP - Merit Care Hospital — Fargo, North Dakota, United States
- Ireland Cancer Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- CCOP - Toledo Community Hospital Oncology Program — Toledo, Ohio, United States
- CCOP - Geisinger Clinic and Medical Center — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
- CCOP - MainLine Health — Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States
- CCOP - Sioux Community Cancer Consortium — Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - Nashville Campus — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Madison — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- CCOP - Marshfield Medical Research and Education Foundation — Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States
- Medical College of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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