Thalidomide in Treating Patients Who Have Undergone Surgery and Chemotherapy for Cancer That Has Spread Throughout the Abdomen Due to Colorectal Cancer or Appendix Cancer

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Carcinoma of the Appendix, Colorectal Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Thalidomide may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Giving thalidomide after surgery and chemotherapy may kill any remaining tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well thalidomide works in treating patients who have undergone surgery and received chemotherapy directly into the abdomen by hyperthermic perfusion for cancer that has spread throughout the abdomen due to colorectal cancer or appendix cancer .

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00310076
Run by
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
People needed
29
Starts
2002-10-01
Expected to finish
2012-09-01
Last updated by the study team
2018-08-23

Who can join

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

Where it is running

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