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Combination Chemotherapy Before or After Surgery in Treating Patients With Colorectal Cancer With Liver Metastases That Could Be Removed By Surgery

NCT01189227 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 9

Last updated 2013-05-10

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Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to kill tumor cells or stop them from growing. Giving combination chemotherapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. Giving combination chemotherapy after surgery may kill any remaining tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving combination chemotherapy before and after surgery is more effective than giving combination chemotherapy after surgery.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving combination chemotherapy before and after surgery to see how well it works compared to giving combination chemotherapy after surgery in treating patients with colorectal cancer with liver metastases that could be removed by surgery.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Postoperative chemotherapy

Patients undergo hepatic resection. Beginning 31-56 days after surgery, patients receive mFOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI chemotherapy IV on day 1 over 3 hours. Patients receive an additional dose of fluorouracil over 46 hours using a portable pump. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for 12 cycles.

PROCEDURE

Perioperative chemotherapy

Patients receive mFOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI chemotherapy IV over 3 hours on day 1. Patients receive an additional dose of fluorouracil over 46 hours using a portable pump. Treatment repeats for every 2 weeks for 6 cycles. Patients then undergo hepatic resection. Beginning 31-56 days after surgery, patients receive an additional 6 cycles of mFOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI chemotherapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • NSABP Foundation Inc

    lead NETWORK

Principal Investigators

  • Norman Wolmark, MD · NSABP Foundation Inc

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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