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Osteosarcoma Study #2: A Randomized Trial of Pre-Surgical Chemotherapy vs. Immediate Surgery and Adjuvant Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Non-Metastatic Osteosarcoma. A Pediatric Oncology Group Phase III Study
This study has been completed.
Sponsored by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001217
  Purpose

The study is designed to determine if the administration of multi-drug adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with primary non-metastatic osteogenic sarcoma, both prior to and after the definitive surgical procedure for their primary tumor is superior as a treatment strategy to the current approach of giving drugs only after the definitive surgical procedure has been performed. An effort will be made as well to determine if the administration of pre-definitive surgery, chemotherapy leads to an increase in the proportion of the patients suitable for a limb salvage primary surgical procedure.


Condition Intervention Phase
Osteosarcoma
Drug: pre-surgical chemotherapy
Phase III

MedlinePlus related topics: Cancer
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Efficacy Study
Official Title: Osteosarcoma Study #2: A Randomized Trial of Pre-Surgical Chemotherapy vs. Immediate Surgery and Adjuvant Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Non-Metastatic Osteosarcoma. A Pediatric Oncology Group Phase III Study

Further study details as provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):

Estimated Enrollment: 260
Study Start Date: May 1987
Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2000
Detailed Description:

The study is designed to determine if the administration of multi-drug adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with primary non-metastatic osteogenic sarcoma, both prior to and after the definitive surgical procedure for their primary tumor is superior as a treatment strategy to the current approach of giving drugs only after the definitive surgical procedure has been performed. An effort will be made as well to determine if the administration of pre-definitive surgery, chemotherapy leads to an increase in the proportion of the patients suitable for a limb salvage primary surgical procedure.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Must be less than or equal to 30 years of age.

No prior history of cancer.

No prior therapy-other than biopsy.

Informed consent according or institutional guidelines (Agreement to randomization to either presurgical chemotherapy or immediate surgery-physicians must also agree).

Less than or equal to 21 days since initial diagnosis and eligible to have surgery within 3 weeks of randomization.

Must have a high grade osteosarcoma.

Must not have low grade osteosarcoma, periosteal and parosteal

osteosarcoma, or multi-focal sclerosing of osteosarcoma.

Tumor must be confined to extremity or expendable and resectable bone of axial skeleton (i.e., ilium, scapula, clavicle, rib).

No evidence of metastases by PE, CXR, chest CT, and bone scans. (Chest CT must be normal within 2 weeks of randomization). Abnormalities on chest CT must be biopsy-negative or thoracotomy negative. Suspicious lesions on bone scan should be biopsied.

LDH level and surgical intent (i.e., amputation, resection, or limb replacement) must be known before patient is registered.

  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001217

Locations
United States, Maryland
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
Sponsors and Collaborators
  More Information

Publications:
Study ID Numbers: 870068, 87-C-0068
Study First Received: November 3, 1999
Last Updated: March 3, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001217  
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Non-Metastatic Osteosarcoma
Presurgical Chemotherapy

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Malignant mesenchymal tumor
Sarcoma
Osteosarcoma
Osteogenic sarcoma
Soft tissue sarcomas

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Bone Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 15, 2009