Cetuximab + Best Supportive Care Compared With Best Supportive Care Alone in Metastatic Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Positive Colorectal Cancer

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00079066

Recruitment Status : Completed

First Posted : March 9, 2004

Last Update Posted : August 4, 2023

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Sponsor:

Collaborator:

Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Canadian Cancer Trials Group ( NCIC Clinical Trials Group )

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Recruitment Status :	Completed
Actual Primary Completion Date :	November 3, 2006
Actual Study Completion Date :	February 10, 2009

Publications of Results:

Au HJ, Karapetis CS, O'Callaghan CJ, Tu D, Moore MJ, Zalcberg JR, Kennecke H, Shapiro JD, Koski S, Pavlakis N, Charpentier D, Wyld D, Jefford M, Knight GJ, Magoski NM, Brundage MD, Jonker DJ. Health-related quality of life in patients with advanced colorectal cancer treated with cetuximab: overall and KRAS-specific results of the NCIC CTG and AGITG CO.17 Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Apr 10;27(11):1822-8. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.6048. Epub 2009 Mar 9.

Jonker DJ, Karapetis C, Harbison C, et al.: High epiregulin (EREG) gene expression plus K-ras wild-type (WT) status as predictors of cetuximab benefit in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer (ACRC): results from NCIC CTG CO.17-A phase III trial of cetuximab versus best supportive care (BSC).. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 27 (Suppl 15): A-4016, 2009.

Asmis TR, Powell E, Karapetis CS, Jonker DJ, Tu D, Jeffery M, Pavlakis N, Gibbs P, Zhu L, Dueck DA, Whittom R, Langer C, O'Callaghan CJ. Comorbidity, age and overall survival in cetuximab-treated patients with advanced colorectal cancer (ACRC)--results from NCIC CTG CO.17: a phase III trial of cetuximab versus best supportive care. Ann Oncol. 2011 Jan;22(1):118-126. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdq309. Epub 2010 Jul 5.

Karapetis CS, Khambata-Ford S, Jonker DJ, O'Callaghan CJ, Tu D, Tebbutt NC, Simes RJ, Chalchal H, Shapiro JD, Robitaille S, Price TJ, Shepherd L, Au HJ, Langer C, Moore MJ, Zalcberg JR. K-ras mutations and benefit from cetuximab in advanced colorectal cancer. N Engl J Med. 2008 Oct 23;359(17):1757-65. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804385.

Mittmann N, Au HJ, Tu D, et al.: A prospective economic analysis of cost-effectiveness of cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer patients from the NCIC CTG and AGITG CO.17 trial. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 26 (Suppl 15): A-6528, 2008.

O'Callaghan CJ, Tu D, Karapetis CS, et al.: The relationship between the development of rash and clinical and quality of life outcomes in colorectal cancer patients treated with cetuximab in NCIC CTG CO.17. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 26 (Suppl 15): A-4130, 2008.

Jonker DJ, Karapetis CS, Moore M, et al.: Randomized phase III trial of cetuximab monotherapy plus best supportive care (BSC) versus BSC alone in patients with pretreated metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive colorectal carcinoma: a trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) and the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG). [Abstract] American Association for Cancer Research: 98th Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2007, Los Angeles, CA. 2007.

Jonker DJ, O'Callaghan CJ, Karapetis CS, Zalcberg JR, Tu D, Au HJ, Berry SR, Krahn M, Price T, Simes RJ, Tebbutt NC, van Hazel G, Wierzbicki R, Langer C, Moore MJ. Cetuximab for the treatment of colorectal cancer. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 15;357(20):2040-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa071834.

Other Publications:

Gupta A, O'Callaghan CJ, Zhu L, Jonker DJ, Wong RPW, Colwell B, Moore MJ, Karapetis CS, Tebbutt NC, Shapiro JD, Tu D, Booth CM. Evaluating the Time Toxicity of Cancer Treatment in the CCTG CO.17 Trial. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Jun;19(6):e859-e866. doi: 10.1200/OP.22.00737. Epub 2023 Mar 7.

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Loree JM, Dowers A, Tu D, Jonker DJ, Edelstein DL, Quinn H, Holtrup F, Price T, Zalcberg JR, Moore MJ, Karapetis CS, O'Callaghan CJ, Waring P, Kennecke HF, Hamilton SR, Kopetz S. Expanded Low Allele Frequency RAS and BRAF V600E Testing in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer as Predictive Biomarkers for Cetuximab in the Randomized CO.17 Trial. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 1;27(1):52-59. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2710. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

Hay AE, Pater JL, Corn E, Han L, Camacho X, O'Callaghan C, Chong N, Bell EN, Tu D, Earle CC. Pilot study of the ability to probabilistically link clinical trial patients to administrative data and determine long-term outcomes. Clin Trials. 2019 Feb;16(1):14-17. doi: 10.1177/1740774518815653. Epub 2018 Nov 22.

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