Trial reportCancer biology & medicine2023
Comparing effectiveness and safety of paclitaxel plus raltitrexed
Trial report in Cancer biology & medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.
- Relative Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Second- or Later-Line Treatments for Advanced and Metastatic Gastric Cancer: A Rapid Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Fruquintinib plus paclitaxel versus placebo plus paclitaxel for gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma: the randomized phase 3 FRUTIGA trial.Nature medicine · 2024Trial
- Nab-paclitaxel versus paclitaxel for taxane acute pain syndrome in solid tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivePaclitaxel (P) is a standard second-line chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. This study compared the clinical outcome of a paclitaxel plus raltitrexed (RP) regimen as second-line treatment in metastatic gastric cancer (MGC) patients.
methodsAn open, randomized, multi-center phase II clinical trial was conducted involving 148 patients who were randomly assigned and treated with RP [raltitrexed (3 mg/m
resultsPFS had a tendency to be prolonged with RP compared to P (2.7 months
conclusionsSecond-line palliative chemotherapy with RP was shown to prolong the PFS and OS, especially among patients with ascites or peritoneal involvement, which warrants confirmation using larger sample studies.
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