Chlorambucil Compared With No Further Therapy Following Anti-Helicobacter Therapy in Treating Patients With Low-Grade Lymphoma of the Stomach

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether chlorambucil is more effective than observation in treating low-grade lymphoma of the stomach. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of chlorambucil with that of no further therapy following anti-Helicobacter therapy in treating patients with low-grade lymphoma of the stomach.

Timeline

Start

1995-03

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Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper difference of 10%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = -9% to 29%, P = 0.15. PMID 19036078 ↗

Publications

• Results Hancock BW, Qian W, Linch D, Delchier JC, Smith P, Jakupovic I, Burton C, Souhami R, Wotherspoon A, Copie-Bergman C, Capella C, Traulle C, Levy M, Cortelazzo S, Ferreri AJ, Ambrosetti A, Pinotti G, Martinelli G, Vitolo U, Cavalli F, Gisselbrecht C, Zucca E. Chlorambucil versus observation after anti-Helicobacter therapy in gastric MALT lymphomas: results of the international randomised LY03 trial. Br J Haematol. 2009 Feb;144(3):367-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07486.x. Epub 2008 Nov 22.
• Results Bertoni F, Conconi A, Capella C, Motta T, Giardini R, Ponzoni M, Pedrinis E, Novero D, Rinaldi P, Cazzaniga G, Biondi A, Wotherspoon A, Hancock BW, Smith P, Souhami R, Cotter FE, Cavalli F, Zucca E; International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group; United Kingdom Lymphoma Group. Molecular follow-up in gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas: early analysis of the LY03 cooperative trial. Blood. 2002 Apr 1;99(7):2541-4. doi: 10.1182/blood.v99.7.2541.
• Results Zucca E, Roggero E, Delchier J, et al.: Interim evaluation of gastric malt lymphoma response to antibiotics in the ongoing LY03 randomized cooperative trial of observation vs chlorambucil after anti-helicobacter therapy. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 19: A12, 2000.

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