Sorafenib Plus Doxorubicin in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Disease Progre… (NCT01840592) | Clinical Trial Compass
Active — Not RecruitingPhase 2
Sorafenib Plus Doxorubicin in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Disease Progression on Sorafenib
United States30 participantsStarted 2013-04
Plain-language summary
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, the combination of the drug sorafenib in combination with the drug doxorubicin might have on the growth and spread of liver cancer (HCC).
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Diagnosis of HCC confirmed histologically, excluding mixed HCC histology (e.g. HCC plus cholangiocarcinoma) or fibrolamellar variant.
* Prior treatment with sorafenib as single agent or in combination, with no less than 200 mg once every other day dose of sorafenib, with radiologic evidence of progression of disease.
* Measurable disease using RECIST 1.1 criteria.
* Non-cirrhotic or no more than Child-Pugh A cirrhosis.
* Expected survival of at least 3 months.
* Age ≥ 18 years.
* KPS ≥ 70%
* Fully recovered from any prior surgery and/or radiation and none within 2 weeks of initiating treatment.
* Patients may have been treated with locoregional liver directed therapies such as embolization, chemo-embolization including drug-eluting beads doxorubicin chemoembolization (prior non drug eluting beads chemoembolization with doxorubicin is excluded), radiation, radioactive microspheres, etc., provided that they either have a target lesion that has not been subjected to local therapy and/or the target lesion(s) within the field of the local therapy has shown an increase of ≥25% in the size since last treatment. Such therapy must be completed at least 4 weeks prior to treatment initiation. Patients that have received palliative radiation therapy to the bone need not wait 4 weeks to begin protocol therapy.
* Informed consent must be obtained prior to study initiation.
* Total bilirubin ≤3.0 mg/dL and no evidence of bile obstruction.
* Absolute neutrophil count (…