Bevacizumab (called also Avastin ®) is a medicine preventing the creation of new blood vessels (a process called "angiogenesis"). This can reduce blood flow of the tumor and then decreasing the contribution of nutriments and oxygen to the cancer cells and prevent the tumor from growing. In various types of cancers, as lung, breast, colorectal and renal cancer, addition of the bevacizumab to chemotherapy allowed to improve the disease outcome. The bevacizumab already benefits from a marketing authorization (MMA) for these various types of cancers. The bevacizumab has also obtained MMA for the treatment of the ovarian cancer in its most frequent histological form (ovarian carcinoma). Clinical trials conducted in this indication demonstrated the importance to pursue the treatment by bevacizumab after the chemotherapy is ended. This anti-angiogenic medicine is thought to be of a potential interest in sex cords- stromal since this tumors are very well vascularized. The ALIENOR study aims to explore the interest and the clinical benefit of associating bevacizumab to the paclitaxel in order to treat patients suffering from recurring sex cords- stromal tumor treated beforehand by platinum chemotherapy
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Hôpital Jean Minjoz
Besançon, France
Institut Bergonié
Bordeaux, France
Polyclinique Bordeaux Nord
Bordeaux, France
Centre François Baclesse
Caen, France
Centre Jean Perrin
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Centre Georges François Leclerc
Dijon, France
Centre Oscar Lambret
Lille, France
Centre Léon Bérard
Lyon, France
Institut Paoli Calmettes
Marseille, France
ICM Val d'Aurelle
Montpellier, France
...and 14 more locations
clinical benefit of combining bevacizumab treatment to weekly paclitaxel
To evaluate the clinical benefit of combining bevacizumab treatment to weekly paclitaxel measured by the non-progression rate after 6 months of treatment.
Time frame: after 6 months of treatment
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