A Randomized Controlled Study of Postoperative Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Uracil- Tegafur (UFT) Compared With Surgery Alone (NSAS-GC)

NCT00152243 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2011-07-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a controlled study designed to evaluate the efficacy of UFT on survival compared with surgery alone. Patients will be randomly assigned to receive either surgery alone or surgery followed by UFT within 6 weeks after curative resection. To assess treatment response, data on recurrence and survival will be collected for 5 years after enrollment of the last patient. To evaluate safety, data on adverse events will be collected for 16 months after the start of treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

UFT (uracil, tegafur)

uracil-tegafur 360 mg per square meter per day orally 16 months

PROCEDURE

Surgery alone

Gastrectomy of tumour node metastasis(TNM) stage T2N1-2 gastric cancer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Toshifusa Nakajima, MD · Cancer Institute Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1997-06-30
Primary Completion
2006-03-31
Completion
2007-08-31

Countries

  • Japan

Study Locations

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