drugset / Trial / NCT00456261

First-Line Treatment of A Comparison of 2 Treatments in Elderly Patients With Advanced NSCLC

NCT00456261 ↗

RandomizedSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

This trial will look at 2 different drug combinations that have well known safety profiles and are known to be active against non small cell lung cancer and combine them with bevacizumab, an experimental drug that has shown effectiveness when added to other drug combinations for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The primary objective in this study is to see how well this combination of drugs keeps the cancer from getting worse in this elderly population of non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Timeline

Start
2007-03
Primary completion
2010-02
Completion
2012-09

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Bevacizumab Monoclonal antibody 10 mg/kg Intravenous
Subject Bevacizumab Monoclonal antibody 15 mg/kg Intravenous
Subject Carboplatin Small molecule 5 unknown Intravenous
Subject Gemcitabine Small molecule 1500 mg/m2 Intravenous
Subject Pemetrexed Small molecule 500 mg/m2 Intravenous

Indications