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Brief Title: Chemotherapeutic Trial With Gemcitabine, Cisplatin, 5-FU and Folinic Acid in Esophageal Cancer
Official Title: An Open Labeled Phase 2 Study of Gemcitabine in Combination With Cisplatin, 5-FU (24h CI) and Folinic Acid in Patients With Inoperable Esophageal Cancer
Study ID: NCT00759226
Brief Summary: This multicenter open labeled phase 2 trial examines the efficacy of a combination of Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 (30 min), Cisplatin 30 mg/m2 (90 min), Folinic Acid 200 mg/m2 (30 min) and 5-FU 750 mg/m2 (24h CI) all given day 1,8 q D22 in patients with inoperable esophageal cancer. The combination was considered to be suitable for further evaluation with a freedom of progression rate (PR+CR+SD) of more than 60% and not be be of further interest with a rate of less than 40%. Given an alpha error of 5% and an beta error of 10% at least 66 evaluable patients were needed based on a 2-Stage Simon design with a first evaluation after 25 evaluable patients.
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, , Germany
Name: Hanno Riess, MD, PhD
Affiliation: Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR