Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 1:28 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 1:28 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00660894
Brief Summary:
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as tegafur-uracil, leucovorin, and S-1, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known whether giving tegafur-uracil together with leucovorin is more effective than giving S-1 in treating patients with stage III colon cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving tegafur-uracil together with leucovorin to see how well it works compared with giving S-1 in treating patients with stage III colon cancer that has been completely removed by surgery.
Detailed Description:
OBJECTIVES:
* Compare the disease-free survival of patients with stage III colon cancer treated with S-1 or tegafur-uracil and leucovorin after curative surgery .
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
* Arm I: Patients receive oral tegafur-uracil and oral leucovorin 3 times daily on days 1-21. The treatment repeats 5 times every 5 weeks.
* Arm II: Patients receive oral S-1 twice daily on days 1-28. The treatment repeats 4 times every 6 weeks.
Biological samples are collected for gene expression analysis for identification of predictive markers.
Study:
NCT00660894
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00660894