Combination Chemotherapy After Surgery in Treating Patients With Cancer of the Esophagus or Stomach

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Esophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug, and giving them after surgery, may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy, consisting of paclitaxel and cisplatin, given after surgery in treating patients with cancer of the esophagus or stomach.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00003237

Run by

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

People needed

55

Starts

1998-06-22

Last updated by the study team

2023-06-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Lakeside) — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• CCOP - Evanston — Evanston, Illinois, United States
• CCOP - Illinois Oncology Research Association — Peoria, Illinois, United States
• CCOP - Central Illinois — Springfield, Illinois, United States
• CCOP - Carle Cancer Center — Urbana, Illinois, United States
• CCOP - Cedar Rapids Oncology Project — Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
• CCOP - Ochsner — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• New England Medical Center Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• CCOP - Ann Arbor Regional — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• CCOP - Metro-Minnesota — Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States
• CCOP - Northern New Jersey — Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - New York — New York, New York, United States
• Kaplan Cancer Center — New York, New York, 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 - St. Francis Hospital/Natalie Warren Bryant Cancer Center — Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
• Allegheny University Hospitals- Hahnemann — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Fox Chase Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• CCOP - MainLine Health — Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Madison — Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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