OSI-774 (Tarceva) Plus Gemcitabine in Patients With Locally Advanced, Unresectable or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if OSI-774 will improve overall survival when combined with a standard dose of the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine, to individuals with pancreatic cancer.

Timeline

Start

2001-11-29

Primary completion

2004-01-15

Completion

2004-01-15

Publications

• Background Moore MJ, Goldstein D, Hamm J, Figer A, Hecht JR, Gallinger S, Au HJ, Murawa P, Walde D, Wolff RA, Campos D, Lim R, Ding K, Clark G, Voskoglou-Nomikos T, Ptasynski M, Parulekar W; National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Erlotinib plus gemcitabine compared with gemcitabine alone in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer: a phase III trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. J Clin Oncol. 2007 May 20;25(15):1960-6. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.07.9525. Epub 2007 Apr 23.
• Shultz DB, Pai J, Chiu W, Ng K, Hellendag MG, Heestand G, Chang DT, Tu D, Moore MJ, Parulekar WR, Koong AC. A Novel Biomarker Panel Examining Response to Gemcitabine with or without Erlotinib for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy in NCIC Clinical Trials Group PA.3. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 25;11(1):e0147995. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147995. eCollection 2016.

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