Ifosfamide or Doxorubicin in Treating Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma

NCT00003212 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 780

Last updated 2012-01-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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 whether ifosfamide or doxorubicin is more effective for advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of ifosfamide with that of doxorubicin in treating patients who have advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

Conditions

  • Sarcoma

Interventions

DRUG

doxorubicin hydrochloride

DRUG

ifosfamide

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC

    lead NETWORK

Principal Investigators

  • Paul C. Lorigan, MD · The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1998-01-31
Primary Completion
2001-11-30

Countries

  • Belgium
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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