Assess the effectiveness of galeterone in advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma
This research study is a Phase II clinical trial. Phase II clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of galeterone, an investigational drug, in pancreatic cancer. The FDA (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) has not approved galeterone for pancreatic cancer. Galeterone is an androgen receptor inhibitor that showed anti-cancer activity in pancreatic cancer in research lab. In this study, the investigator is interested in evaluating galeterone alone or in combination with chemotherapy in treating pancreatic cancer.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
Therapeutic
Therapeutic
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
response rate
number of patients whose disease shrink during treatment
Time frame: 8 weeks post treatment
progression-free survival
time for galeterone to control the disease
Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression, assessed up to 100 months
overall survival
total life expectancy
Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of death from any cause, assessed up to 100 months
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