Status:

COMPLETED

Combined Antiinflammatory and Angiostatic Therapy in Patients With Hormone-refractory Prostate Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Conditions:

Prostate Cancer

Eligibility:

MALE

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of a multi-targeted therapy in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • Histologically confirmed prostate carcinoma, which has proven progression after primary hormone therapy (surgical or medicinal castration).
  • Patients must have increasing PSA levels (within 3 months prior to enrollment) with at least two consecutively increasing PSA levels.
  • PSA value before inclusion must be at least 5 ng/ml
  • At least 18 years of age.
  • At least capable of self care and up of at least 50% of waking hours (ECOG performance status 0 - 2), adequate bone marrow function and lab results.
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • Change of hormone therapy within 6 weeks prior inclusion
  • Prior chemotherapy
  • Therapy with Imatinib, or therapy with other inhibitors of tyrosinkinase.
  • Second neoplasm diagnosed within 5 years before study start.
  • Patients who require therapy with warfarin
  • Known diagnosis of HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C infection.
  • Severe, unstable, or uncontrolled medical disease which would confound diagnoses or evaluations required by the protocol, including severe cardiac insufficiency
  • Surgical therapy within 4 weeks before inclusion.
  • Prior therapy with isotopes strontium or rhenium.
  • Radiation therapy to \> 25% of bone marrow within 4 weeks before inclusion.
  • Treatment with other experimental substances within 30 days before study start.
  • Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    February 1 2007

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    August 1 2015

    Estimated Enrollment :

    67 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00427999

    Start Date

    February 1 2007

    End Date

    August 1 2015

    Last Update

    November 21 2016

    Active Locations (10)

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    Novartis Investigative Site

    Bad Reichenhall, Germany, 83435

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    Novartis Investigative Site

    Bonn, Germany, 53105

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    Novartis Investigative Site

    Hamburg, Germany, 20246

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    Novartis Investigative Site

    Hamburg, Germany, 22607