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Methotrexate Compared With Dactinomycin in Treating Patients With Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia

NCT00003702

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of methotrexate with that of dactinomycin in treating patients who have gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. 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 methotrexate is more effective than dactinomycin in treating patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

Timeline

Start
1999-06
Primary completion
2010-07
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Dactinomycin Protein / enzyme biologic Intravenous
Subject Methotrexate Small molecule Intramuscular