High-Dose Fluorouracil With or Without Leucovorin Compared With Standard Fluorouracil Plus Leucovorin Following Surgery in Treating Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Colorectal Cancer focused on measuring stage III colon cancer, adenocarcinoma of the colon, mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed stage III adenocarcinoma or mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon Must have had curative radical resection within 56 days prior to study No local tumor therapy (i.e., polypectomy, local excision or limited intestinal resection) PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: WHO 0-1 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,500/mm^3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3 Hemoglobin greater than 10.0 g/dL Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Cardiovascular: No severe coronary heart disease No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart failure Other: No other malignancy within the past 10 years except adequately treated basal cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix No uncontrolled infection No other severe disease No known allergy to leucovorin calcium No known familial adenomatous polyposis, Crohn's disease, or ulcerative colitis No hereditary syndrome (e.g., Gardner's syndrome, Turcot's syndrome, hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer) Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after study participation PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy for colon cancer Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy for colon cancer Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No other concurrent systemic anticancer therapy
Sites / Locations
- Ziekenhuis Network Antwerpen Middelheim
- Institut Jules Bordet
- Hopital Universitaire Erasme
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen
- U.Z. Gasthuisberg
- CHU Liege - Domaine Universitaire du Sart Tilman
- Centre Hospitalier Peltzer-La Tourelle
- Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire d'Angers
- Clinique St. Etienne
- Centre Hospitalier General
- CHR de Besancon - Hopital Jean Minjoz
- Clinique du Cedre
- CHU Ambroise Pare
- Centre Hospitalier de Bourgoin - Jallieu
- Centre Hospitalier General
- CHU de Caen
- Centre Regional Francois Baclesse
- Centre Hospitalier de Chalons - en - Champagne
- Hopital Louis Pasteur
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon
- Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Georges-Francois Leclerc
- Clinique Pasteur
- Cabinet de Gastro-Enterologie
- Centre Hospital Universitaire Hop Huriez
- Hopital de la Croix Rousse
- Hopital Saint Joseph
- Centre Hospitalier de Meaux
- Clinique du Pont de Chaume
- Hopital St. Eloi
- Centre Regional de Lutte Contre le Cancer - Centre Val d'Aurelle
- Hopital de l'Archet
- CHR D'Orleans - Hopital de la Source
- Hopital Bichat - Claude Bernard
- Hopital Cochin
- Clinique Ste - Marie
- Institut Jean Godinot
- Polyclinique De Courlancy
- Centre Hospitalier General de Saint Nazaire
- Centre Hospitalier D'Agen
- Centre Paul Strauss
- CHU Rangueil
- Nouvelle Clinique Generale
- CHU de Nancy - Hopitaux de Brabois
- Centre Hospitalier General - St. Nicolas
- Centre Hospitalier Regionale de Vichy
- Institut Gustave Roussy
- Robert Roessle Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Berlin - Charite Campus Buch
- Saint Laurentius Ziekenhuis
- Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia
- Hospital General
- Hospital Virgen de los Lirios
- Hospital General - Alicante
- Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
- Hospital de Barbastro
- Hospital Del Mar
- Institut d'Oncologia Corachan
- Hospital de la Santa Cruz I Sant Pau
- Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron
- Consorci Hospitalari de la Creu Roia
- Hospital de L'esperit Sant
- Hospital Universitario Puerta Del Mar
- Hospital Universarito "Reina Sofia"
- Hospital Virgen de Luz
- Hospital Universitario de Elche
- Hospital General Virgen de las Nieves
- Hospital General Universitario De Guadalajara
- Residencia Sanitaria de Jaen
- Hospital General de Jerez
- Hospital Universitario Canarias
- Fundacion Jimenez Diaz - Clin. N.S.
- Hospital Universitario San Carlos
- Hospital Regional Carlos Haya De Malaga
- Hospital De Merida
- Hospital De Navarra
- Consorci Hospitalari del Parc Tauli
- Hospital de Sagunto
- Hospital Virgen de la Vega
- Hospital Universitari Sant Joan d'Alacant
- Hospital - Residencia Sant Camil
- Hospital Ntra. Sra. de la Candelaria
- Hospital Consorci Sanitari De Terrassa
- Instituto Valenciano De Oncologia
- Hospital General Universitario Valencia
- Hospital Txagorritxu
- Hospital Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa