Gemcitabine Alone or in Combination With Other Chemotherapy Drugs in Treating Patients With Metastatic Cancer of the Pancreas
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Pancreatic Cancer
In brief
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known if gemcitabine is more effective when given alone or in combination with another chemotherapy drug in treating cancer of the pancreas. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of gemcitabine given alone or in combination with other chemotherapy drugs in treating patients who have metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00012220
- Run by
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
- People needed
- 259
- Starts
- 2001-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-07-14
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Diego — San Diego, California, United States
- UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center — San Francisco, California, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
- CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services — Newark, Delaware, United States
- Lombardi Cancer Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Washington, DC — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
- Broward General Medical Center — Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Memorial Regional Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center — Hollywood, Florida, United States
- CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center — Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Florida Hospital Cancer Institute — Orlando, Florida, United States
- Helen and Harry Gray Cancer Institute at Good Samaritan Medical Center — West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Westside Hospital) — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- West Suburban Center for Cancer Care — River Forest, Illinois, United States
- Saint Anthony Medical Center — Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology, Incorporated — Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
- CCOP - Northern Indiana CR Consortium — South Bend, Indiana, United States
- Hematology Oncology Associates of the Quad Cities — Bettendorf, Iowa, United States
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Baptist Hospital East - Louisville — Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center — Anniston, Alabama, United States
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