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. 2020 Dec 18;2020(12):CD008500. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008500.pub5

NCT00718354.

Study name Randomized, phase III‐b, multi‐centre, open‐label, parallel study of enoxaparin (low molecular weight heparin) given concomitantly with chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone in patients with inoperable gastric and gastro‐oesophageal cancer
Methods Randomised, open‐label, multicentre study. Methods of randomisation and allocation concealment unclear
Participants Patients with inoperable (locally advanced) or metastatic newly diagnosed gastric or gastro‐oesophageal cancer
Interventions Intervention: LMWH, enoxaparin (1 mg/kg SC once daily) in addition to standard chemotherapy up to 6 months
Control: standard chemotherapy (up to 6 cycles)
Outcomes Primary outcome: event‐free survival (composite endpoint of overall survival plus free of symptomatic VTE)
Secondary outcomes: incidence of symptomatic VTE, overall survival, major and minor bleeding during chemotherapy or up to 30 days after last dose is provided, serious adverse events, all reported adverse events, HIT
Starting date July 2008
Contact information Maganji JM, mmaganji@tri‐london.ac.uk
Notes NCT00718354
Study status in ClinicalTrials.gov is "complete."