Timing matters: early platelet booster may prevent dangerous drops in cervical cancer treatment
NCT ID NCT07649395
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at when to start giving a drug called rhTPO to cervical cancer patients whose platelet levels drop during chemoradiation. The goal was to see if starting treatment earlier could prevent severe low platelet counts. Researchers studied 75 patients and compared two different timing strategies. The findings could help doctors decide the best time to use rhTPO to avoid complications.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could establish the best time to start rhTPO to prevent dangerously low platelet counts during cervical cancer treatment.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with no phase designation, so results may not be definitive or widely applicable. The intervention only addresses a side effect, not the cancer itself.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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75 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Feb 2021
- Finished
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Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. KPS(Karnofsky Performance Status) \>60 points; 2. histopathologically or cytologically confirmed stage I-IVa CSCC (FIGO 2018); 3.18-70 years; receiving radical CCRT; 4.receiving rhTPO treatment when they occurred G1 or G2 CTIT at first presentation during CCRT; 5.expected survival time ≥6 months Exclusion Criteria: 1. patients with haematopoietic system diseases, including lymphoma, leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, primary immune thrombocytopenia, myeloproliferative diseases, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndromes; 2. patients who had experienced non-CTIT within 6 months before screening, including but not limited to EDTA(Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia, hypersplenism, infection, bleeding, etc.; 3. patients who had severe visceral bleeding or intracranial haemorrhage before enrolment; any arterial or venous thrombosis within 6 months before screening; 4. patients with severe cardiovascular diseases or arrhythmias that increase the risk of thrombus formation, coronary stent placement, angioplasty, and coronary artery bypass grafts within the prior 6 months; 5. patients who had received platelet-producing drugs such as recombinant human interleukin 11(rhIL-11) within 1 week before the administration of the study drug; 6. haemoglobin \<50g/L after red blood cell transfusion or erythropoietin treatment or absolute neutrophil count \<1.0×109/L after granulocyte colony-stimulating factor treatment; 7. patients participating in clinical trials or who participated in an investigational drug trial within 4 weeks and received study treatment or investigational devices; 8. and patients who were considered by the investigator to be inappropriate for inclusion for other reasons.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sichuan Cancer Hospital
Chengdu, Sichuan, 600000, China
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