S0000 Selenium and Vitamin E in Preventing Prostate Cancer
Completed · Phase 3 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Prostate Cancer
In brief
RATIONALE: Chemoprevention therapy is the use of certain drugs to try to prevent the development of cancer. It is not yet known which regimen of selenium and/or vitamin E may be more effective in preventing prostate cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of selenium and vitamin E, either alone or together, in preventing prostate cancer.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00006392
- Run by
- SWOG Cancer Research Network
- People needed
- 35533
- Starts
- 2001-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-11-20
Who can join
Age: 50 and older, up to 120. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Midwest Center for Hematology/Oncology — Joliet, Illinois, United States
- Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University Medical Center — Maywood, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Cancer Research for the Ozarks — Springfield, Missouri, United States
- St. John's Regional Health Center — Springfield, Missouri, United States
- Good Samaritan Hospital Cancer Treatment Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Bethesda North Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Tod Children's Hospital — Youngstown, Ohio, United States
- LaFortune Cancer Center at St. John Medical Center — Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
- Geisinger Medical Center — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Geisinger Medical Group - Scenery Park — State College, Pennsylvania, United States
- Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center — Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
- U.T. Cancer Institute at University of Tennessee Medical Center — Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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