The purpose of this study is to see if there is a difference in survival between two different treatment strategies for colorectal peritoneal surface disease. The control arm administered the currently considered standard treatment which is palliative systemic chemotherapy. The experimental arm received the combination treatment cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. The investigators hypothesis is that the combination treatment will improve the overall survival.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
49
Oxaliplatin 100 mg/ m2 as a 2 h iv infusion + 5-fluorouracil 400 mg/ m2 iv bolus + Isovorin 100 mg/ m2 as a 2 h infusion followed by 5-fluorouracil 2400 mg/ m2 as a 46 h infusion. Each cycle is given every other week until 12 cycles have been administered.
Cytoreductive surgery has the goal of completely resecting all visible tumor tissue in the abdomen. Sequential postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy has the purpose of an adjuvant treatment to eradicate microscopic residual tumor and prevent recurrences in the abdomen. The chemotherapy regimen consisted of intraperitoneal 5-fluorouracil 550 mg/ m2 and intravenous isovorin 30 mg/ m2 day 1-6 med cycles every 4-6 weeks. Six cycles were planned.
Akademiska Sjukhuset (Uppsala University Hospital)
Uppsala, Sweden
Overall survival
Time frame: 8 years
progression free survival
Time frame: 8 years
Time to secondary treatment
Time frame: 8 years
Radical resectability
Time frame: 5 years
Quality of life
Time frame: 7 years
Health costs
Time frame: 8 years
Side effects of treatment
Time frame: 6 years
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