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Androgen Ablation Therapy With or Without Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer

NCT00309985 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 790

Last updated 2025-12-11

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Summary

RATIONALE: Androgens can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Androgen ablation therapy may stop the adrenal glands from making androgens. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as docetaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known whether androgen-ablation therapy is more effective with or without docetaxel in treating metastatic prostate cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying androgen-ablation therapy and chemotherapy to see how well they work compared to androgen-ablation therapy alone in treating patients with metastatic prostate cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

androgen-deprivation therapy

LHRH analogs are administered with a variety of techniques such as subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or insertion, while antiandrogens (flutamide and bicalutamide) were given orally.

DRUG

docetaxel

Given IV

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group

    lead NETWORK

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher Sweeney, MBBS · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-26
Primary Completion
2013-12-23
Completion
2025-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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