Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Alone or With Delayed Chemo Versus ART With Immediate Chemo for Limited AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-11-29

Summary

AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma (AIDS-KS) occurs in persons with HIV infection who are also infected with the Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV). Several chemotherapy (anti-cancer) drugs work well in treating KS, but there is no treatment that cures KSHV infection. One chemotherapy drug called etoposide (VePesid®, ET) has caused KS tumors to get smaller in some people.

Antiretroviral therapy (anti-HIV drugs or ART) is a group of medicines taken together to treat HIV infection. These medicines help to stop HIV from growing in the body. When this happens, the immune system, which fights infection and some cancers like KS, gets stronger. For some people, limited stage KS often improves or stays the same when they take ART. However, in some people KS continues to get worse when taking ART. These people may need chemotherapy at a later date.

This study was done to find out if taking ART with immediate etoposide (ET) is better than taking ART alone or ART with delayed ET to treat limited stage KS. The study also tried to better understand KSHV and to see what kind of side effects are caused by ART and ET and how safe ART and ET are.

• Phase: Phase 3

Details

• Lead Sponsor: AIDS Clinical Trials Group
• Collaborator: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Treatments: Efavirenz; Efavirenz, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination; Emtricitabine; Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination; Etoposide; Etoposide phosphate; Tenofovir