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Study of Pemetrexed and Carboplatin Compared With Etoposide Carboplatin to Treat Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT00363415

Phase 3 Completed 908 enrolled Eli Lilly and Company
RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

This study is a Phase 3, global, multi-center, open-label study of patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to receive either pemetrexed plus carboplatin or etoposide plus carboplatin. It is anticipated that pemetrexed plus carboplatin will offer similar survival benefits as compared to etoposide plus carboplatin.

Timeline

Start
2006-08
Primary completion
2008-06
Completion
2008-06

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Comparator Etoposide Small molecule 100 mg/m2 Intravenous
Subject Pemetrexed Small molecule 500 mg/m2 Intravenous
Background Carboplatin Small molecule 5 unknown Intravenous