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A Phase III Study of Radiotherapy or ABVD Plus Radiotherapy Versus ABVD Alone in the Treatment of Early Stage Hodgkin's Disease
ISRCTN ISRCTN94798326
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
Public title A Phase III Study of Radiotherapy or ABVD Plus Radiotherapy Versus ABVD Alone in the Treatment of Early Stage Hodgkin's Disease
Scientific title
Acronym N/A
Serial number at source HD305
Study hypothesis Not provided at time of registration.
Ethics approval Not provided at time of registration.
Study design Randomised controlled trial
Countries of recruitment Canada
Disease/condition/study domain Lymphoma (Hodgkin's)
Participants - inclusion criteria 1. Histologically proven Hodgkin's disease
2. Ann Arbor stage I-IIa disease
3. Age between 16 and 70 years
4. No prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy
5. No prior or concurrent malignancies, except treated basal cell carcinoma
6. No cardiac disease
7. No stage Ia disease which is treatable with involved field only irradiation
8. No interabdominal disease
9. No B symptoms
10. No known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
Participants - exclusion criteria Not provided at time of registration.
Anticipated start date 22/07/1994
Anticipated end date 22/07/1999
Status of trial Completed
Patient information material
Target number of participants Not provided at time of registration.
Interventions Patients are divided into two cohorts based on risk factors and randomised to receive either standard treatment (radiation or combined modality therapy according to cohort assignment) or experimental treatment (ABVD):

1. STANDARD ARM:
A. Cohort 1: Radiotherapy only.
B. Cohort 2: Chemotherapy, adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and decarbazine (ABVD) given intravenously on days 1 and 15 of a 28 day cycle. Two cycles of ABVD to be followed by radiotherapy.

2. EXPERIMENTAL ARM:
Chemotherapy, ABVD given intravenously on days 1 and 15 of a 28 day cycle. Patients initially receive two cycles of ABVD followed by restaging. Patients in complete remission receive a further two cycles of ABVD, and those patients assessed as achieving a partial remission and not demonstrating progressive disease receive a further four cycles of ABVD.
Primary outcome measure(s) Not provided at time of registration.
Secondary outcome measure(s) Not provided at time of registration.
Sources of funding National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group
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Contact name Dr  -  -
  Address UKCCCR Register Co-ordinator
MRC Clinical Trials Unit
222 Euston Road
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode NW1 2DA
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0) 20 7670 4723
  Fax +44 (0) 20 7670 4818
  Email register@ctu.mrc.ac.uk
Sponsor National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG)
  Address 10 Alcorn Avenue
Suite 200
  City/town Toronto
  Zip/Postcode M4V 3B1
  Country Canada
  Tel +1 416 9617223
  Fax +1 416 9614189
  Email webadmin@cancer.ca
  Sponsor website: http://www.ncic.cancer.ca
Date applied 19/08/2002
Last edited 29/08/2007
Date ISRCTN assigned 19/08/2002
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