NCT02285738.
Trial name or title | Anti‐platelet and statin therapy to prevent cancer‐associated thrombosis: a pilot study |
Methods | Open‐label, parallel‐assignment RCT |
Participants | Patients with a histologic diagnosis of malignancy of a solid organ or lymphoma who have a VTE risk score of 1 or higher and will be initiating a new systemic chemotherapy regimen |
Interventions | Intervention 1: aspirin Intervention 2: simvastatin Control: observation |
Outcomes | Primary outcome: change in average sP‐selectin levels Secondary outcomes: major bleeding complications or clinically significant non‐bleeding complications, change in circulating biomarkers, thrombotic events including venus thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, visceral vein thrombosis as well as arterial thromboembolic events including stroke, myocardial infarction, or arterial embolism |
Starting date | December 2014 |
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Notes | ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02285738 |