Octreotide With or Without Prednisone in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Thymoma

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of octreotide alone or with prednisone in treating patients with metastatic or recurrent thymoma.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00003283

Run by

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

People needed

38

Starts

1998-10-13

Last updated by the study team

2023-06-15

Who can join

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

Where it is running

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Palo Alto — Palo Alto, California, United States
• Stanford University Medical Center — Stanford, California, United States
• CCOP - Colorado Cancer Research Program, Inc. — Denver, Colorado, United States
• Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States
• Emory University Hospital - Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Atlanta (Decatur) — Decatur, Georgia, United States
• 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
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Indianapolis (Roudebush) — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• CCOP - Cedar Rapids Oncology Project — Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
• Johns Hopkins Oncology Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• New England Medical Center Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• CCOP - Kalamazoo — Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
• CCOP - Metro-Minnesota — Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Albany — Albany, New York, United States
• University of Rochester Cancer Center — Rochester, New York, United States
• Albert Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
• Ireland Cancer Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• CCOP - Geisinger Clinic and Medical Center — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
• Hahnemann University Hospital — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Fox Chase Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Nashville — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Pretoria Academic Hospitals — Pretoria, South Africa

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