Arsenic Trioxide in Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer That Has Not Responded to Gemcitabine

NCT00053222 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2013-09-05

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.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide in treating patients who have locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer that has not responded to gemcitabine.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

arsenic trioxide

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH
  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hedy L. Kindler, MD · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-02-28
Primary Completion
2005-01-31
Completion
2007-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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