Drug tested for Hard-to-Treat stomach tumors shows limited promise

NCT ID NCT00756509

Summary

This study tested whether the drug nilotinib could help control advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) in adults who had not yet received treatment for their metastatic disease. It enrolled 34 patients to take nilotinib daily and measured if their tumors shrank or stopped growing. The trial was stopped early because a larger study suggested nilotinib was unlikely to work better than the standard drug imatinib, though this smaller study continued to provide the drug to some patients already benefiting from it.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Helsinki, FIN-00029, Finland

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Lyon, 69373, France

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Munich, Bavaria, 81377, Germany

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Bad Saarow, 15526, Germany

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Essen, 45147, Germany

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Hanover, 30625, Germany

  • Novartis Investigative Site

    Milan, MI, 20133, Italy

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