S-1 or Tegafur-Uracil in Treating Patients With Previously Treated Stage III or Stage IV Head and Neck Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as S-1 and tegafur-uracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving S-1 or tegafur-uracil after surgery, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and/or radiation therapy may kill any remaining tumor cells. It is not yet known whether S-1 is more effective than tegafur-uracil in treating head and neck cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying S-1 to see how well it works compared with tegafur-uracil in treating patients with previously treated stage III or stage IV head and neck cancer.

Timeline

Start

2006-04

Primary completion

2012-03

Completion

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Publications

• Tsukahara K, Kubota A, Hasegawa Y, Takemura H, Terada T, Taguchi T, Nagahara K, Nakatani H, Yoshino K, Higaki Y, Iwae S, Beppu T, Hanamure Y, Tomita K, Kohno N, Kawabata K, Fukushima M, Teramukai S, Fujii M; ACTS-HNC group. Randomized phase III trial of adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 after curative treatment in patients with squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck (ACTS-HNC). PLoS One. 2015 Feb 11;10(2):e0116965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116965. eCollection 2015.

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