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

Basic Trial Information
Trial Description
     Summary
     Eligibility Criteria
Trial Contact Information

Basic Trial Information

Phase
Type
Status
Age
Sponsor
Protocol IDs

Phase II


Treatment


Active


18 and over


Pharmaceutical / Industry


CSTI571BDE59
NCT00427999

Trial Description

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 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

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations/Sponsors

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

NovartisStudy Chair

Novartis BaselPh: 41 61 324 1111

Trial Sites

Germany
  Regensburg
 Study Site

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
NLM Identifer NCT00427999
Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 23, 2008

Note: Information about this trial is from the ClinicalTrials.gov database. The versions designated for health professionals and patients contain the same text. Minor changes may be made to the ClinicalTrials.gov record to standardize the names of study sponsors, sites, and contacts. Cancer.gov only lists sites that are recruiting patients for active trials, whereas ClinicalTrials.gov lists all sites for all trials. Questions and comments regarding the presented information should be directed to ClinicalTrials.gov.

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