Radiation Therapy and Fluorouracil Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Primary or Recurrent Bile Duct Cancer

Stopped early · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Extrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer, Liver Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy before surgery may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed during surgery. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining radiation therapy with fluorouracil before surgery in treating patients who have primary or recurrent bile duct cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00030511

Run by

European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC

Starts

2001-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-07-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Cancer Center at the University of Virginia — Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
• Hopital de Jolimont — Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium
• Les Cliniques Saint-Joseph ASBL — Liège, Belgium
• Centre Hospital Regional Universitaire de Limoges — Limoges, France
• Hopital Cochin — Paris, France
• Hopital Paul Brousse — Villejuif, France

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