Conditions: Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Keywords: Imatinib Re-challenge
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 81
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The objective of this study is to compare the clinical outcomes following resumption of dosing (re-challenge) with Imatinib plus best supportive care versus placebo plus best supportive care in patients with advanced/incurable Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors following failure of prior imatinib and sunitinib therapies.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Patients will be randomly assigned to receive imatinib at a dose of 400mg/day, taken once daily with food, in the form of 100-mg tablets. The study medication will be administered until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or withdrawal of consent. arm 2: Patients will be randomly assigned to receive placebo at a dose of 400mg/day, taken once daily with food, in the form of 100-mg tablets. The study medication will be administered until disease progression or withdrawal of consent.

Interventions: intervention 1: Imatinib intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Patients will be randomly assigned to receive imatinib at a dose of 400mg/day, taken once daily with food, in the form of 100-mg tablets. The study medication will be administered until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or withdrawal of consent. intervention 2: Patients will be randomly assigned to receive placebo at a dose of 400mg/day, taken once daily with food, in the form of 100-mg tablets. The study medication will be administered until disease progression or withdrawal of consent.

Protocol document: