Status:

COMPLETED

A Trial of Carboplatin and Gemcitabine Versus Gemcitabine Alone in Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Eli Lilly and Company

Conditions:

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

To determine and compare the median survival produced by combined Gemcitabine plus Paraplatin versus Gemcitabine as a single-agent in patients with NSCLC and a PS equal to 2.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Histologic or cytologic new diagnosis of NSCLC, Stage IIIB with a cytologically positive pleural or pericardial effusion or Stage IV.
  • No prior chemotherapy, including adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy, for the treatment of NSCLC.
  • ECOG Performance Status of 2 .
  • Patients must be at least 3 weeks since major surgery. Patients must be at least 1 week since surgery, such as mediastinoscopy, pleuroscopy, or thoracostomy.
  • Patients must have measurable disease, defined as lesions that can be accurately measured in at least 1 dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as greater than or equal to 20 mm with conventional techniques or as greater than 10 mm with spiral CT scan.

Exclusion

  • Any prior radiation therapy to the thoracic area.
  • Active and ongoing systemic infection.
  • Prior radiation to greater than 25% of the bone marrow.
  • ECOG PS other than 2
  • Patients with a known hypersensitivity to gemcitabine and carboplatin.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2004

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

August 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

242 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00190710

Start Date

March 1 2004

End Date

August 1 2007

Last Update

November 14 2007

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