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Doxorubicin in Treating Patients With AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma

NCT00002985

Phase 3 Completed Roswell Park Cancer Institute
RandomizedTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether doxorubicin is more effective than daunorubicin for AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. PURPOSE: Randomized double-blinded phase III trial to determine if doxorubicin is more effective than daunorubicin in treating patients who have AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.

Timeline

Start
1996-11
Primary completion
2007-01
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Daunorubicin Small molecule Intravenous
Subject Doxorubicin Other / unclassified Intravenous

Indications