Itraconazole in Advanced Ovarian Cancer

Summary

This is a randomized, placebo controlled; parallel study that will be conducted on 66 female patients with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma (stage III and stage IV) to compare effect of adding Itraconazole to paclitaxel and carboplatin versus placebo to paclitaxel and carboplatin as regard overall response rate (ORR) and Disease control rate (DCR) and Quality of life (QOL) and the change in the serum concentrations of the biological markers.

Timeline

Start

2022-10

Primary completion

2024-10

Completion

2024-10

Publications

• Background Goenka L, Dubashi B, Selvarajan S, Ganesan P. Use of "Repurposed" Drugs in the Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review. Am J Clin Oncol. 2022 Apr 1;45(4):168-174. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000900.
• Background Nunes M, Henriques Abreu M, Bartosch C, Ricardo S. Recycling the Purpose of Old Drugs to Treat Ovarian Cancer. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Oct 20;21(20):7768. doi: 10.3390/ijms21207768.
• Background Mohamed AW, Elbassiouny M, Elkhodary DA, Shawki MA, Saad AS. The effect of itraconazole on the clinical outcomes of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer receiving platinum-based chemotherapy: a randomized controlled study. Med Oncol. 2021 Feb 9;38(3):23. doi: 10.1007/s12032-021-01475-0.
• Background Li CL, Fang ZX, Wu Z, Hou YY, Wu HT, Liu J. Repurposed itraconazole for use in the treatment of malignancies as a promising therapeutic strategy. Biomed Pharmacother. 2022 Oct;154:113616. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.113616. Epub 2022 Aug 30.

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