A Phase III Trial Comparing UFT+PSK to UFT+LV in Stage IIB, III Colorectal Cancer

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2015-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To compare the efficacy of tegafur/uracil (UFT) plus folinate calcium (leucovorin: LV) administered orally and UFT plus Krestin (PSK) administered orally enrolling patients with pTNM stage IIB or III colorectal cancer as subjects in a multicenter collaborative randomized open-label comparative controlled study and consequently to determine the usefulness of the above regimens as adjuvant therapy after surgery.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Multicenter Clinical Study Group of Osaka, Colorectal Cancer Treatment Group
• Treatments: Calcium; Krestin; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; polysaccharide-K; Tegafur

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with pTNM stage IIB or III (UICC Sixth version) primary colon cancer/rectal cancer who have undergone surgery of histological curability A (including laparoscopic surgery) (the curability is judged after surgery)

• Patients with primary tumor that directly invades other organs or structures and/or perforates into the visceral peritoneum (T4) or with histologically positive lymph node metastasis (N+) (to be judged after surgery)

• Patients who is between 20 and 80 years old at the time of obtaining informed consent

• Patients with performance status of 0 - 2

• Patients without receiving any cancer treatment such as radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy before surgical operation

• Patients without severe dysfunction of renal, hepatic, or bone marrow function

• Patients without serious complications such as bone marrow suppression, diarrhea, and infections diseases

• Patients who have given consent to participate in this clinical study by himself/herself or his/her family

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients in whom the bottom of tumor reaches the peritoneal reflection

• Patients with lower rectal cancer (Rb), anal canal (P), or circumanal skin (E)

• Patients who has active multiple cancers or whose disease-free survival is less than 5 years even though the cancers are metachronous (except carcinoma in situ and skin cancers)

• Women who are currently pregnant or wish to be pregnant during this clinical study

• Patients who are judged to be inappropriate to participate in this clinical study by the investigator or subinvestigator