Epoetin Alfa in Treating Anemia in Patients With Lymphoma, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, or Multiple Myeloma and Anemia Caused By Chemotherapy
Completed · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Anemia, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm
In brief
RATIONALE: Drugs such as epoetin alfa may relieve anemia caused by chemotherapy. The best time for giving epoetin alfa during chemotherapy is not yet known. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of epoetin alfa in treating anemia in patients with lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or multiple myeloma who are receiving chemotherapy.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00003341
- Run by
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- People needed
- 275
- Starts
- 1997-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2003-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-07-03
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Alta Bates Comprehensive Cancer Center — Berkeley, California, United States
- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Comprehensive Cancer Centers of the Desert — Palm Springs, California, United States
- Division of Oncology — Palo Alto, California, United States
- George Washington University Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute — Tampa, Florida, United States
- Rush Cancer Institute — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute — Buffalo, New York, United States
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
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