Active Symptom Control Alone or With mFOLFOX Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced/ Metastatic Biliary Tract Cancers (ABC06)

This is an interventional treatment trial for Biliary Tract Cancer Read More

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically / cytologically verified, non-resectable or recurrent / metastatic cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder or ampullary carcinoma.
• Patients must have failed no more than one prior course of chemotherapy (gemcitabine and cisplatin) with clear evidence of disease progression.
• ECOG performance status 0-1.
• Age >=18 years and life expectancy >3 months.
• Adequate renal function with serum urea and serum creatinine < 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) and creatinine clearance >= 30ml/min
• Adequate haematological function: Hb >= 100g/l, WBC >= 3.0 x 10*9/L, ANC >= 2 x 10*9/L, platelet count >= 100 x 10*9/L
• Adequate liver function: total bilirubin < 60 μmol/L and ALP, along with AST and/or ALT ≤ 5 x ULN
• Adequate biliary drainage, with no evidence of ongoing infection (patients on maintenance antibiotics are eligible when acute sepsis has resolved).
• Women of child bearing age must have a negative pregnancy test prior to study entry and be using an adequate contraception method, which must be continued for 4 months after the study, unless child bearing potential has been terminated by surgery/radical radiotherapy
• Men must be willing to use an adequate method of contraception during chemotherapy and until 6 months after chemotherapy
• Patients must have given written informed consent
• Patients must be randomised and those allocated chemotherapy must start treatment within 6 weeks of diagnosis of disease progression

Exclusion criteria:

• Incomplete recovery from previous therapy or unresolved biliary tree obstruction (includes ongoing neuropathy of grade >1 from cisplatin)
• Any evidence of severe or uncontrolled systemic diseases which, in the view of the investigator, makes it undesirable for the patient to participate in the trial
• Evidence of significant clinical disorder or laboratory finding which, in the opinion of the investigator makes it undesirable for the patient to participate in the trial
• Any patient with a medical or psychiatric condition that impairs their ability to give informed consent
• Any other serious uncontrolled medical conditions
• Clinical evidence of metastatic disease to brain
• Any pregnant or lactating woman

• Clinically significant cardiovascular disease. [i.e. active; or <12 months since e.g. cerebrovascular accident, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade II or greater congestive heart failure, serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, uncontrolled hypertension].

  **Hypertension grading of ≥ 3 is an exclusion criteria (CTCAE v4.03). However, patients who have controlled hypertension with medication and/or diet may be included at the investigator's discretion. (This should be noted in the medical history section of the CRF).

• Patients must not have a history of other malignant diseases within the last 5 years (other than adequately treated non-melanotic skin cancer or in-situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix).