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Phase II Trial of Doxycycline with Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer

ABSTRACT: Interventions: Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which prevents the binding of amino-acyltRNA to the messenger RNA-30S ribosomal subunit, preventing polyribosome formation. It is approved in New Zealand for the treatment of chronic prostatitis, sinusitis, syphilis, pelvic inflammatory disease, malaria, recurrent aphthous ulceration, and acne vulgaris. Doxycycline primarily exerts it’s antimicrobial action by bacteriostasis. It also has antinflammatory effects. Doxycycline will be administered as two 100mg tablets orally each morning, starting two days prior to the first dose of short-course radiotherapy (SCRT), until one day prior to surgery for rectal cancer. Surgery will be performed within three weeks of starting radiotherapy treatment. The duration of doxycycline will be between 12 and 23 days, and will be determined by each participant s individual treatment schedule. Adherence will be assessed through a combination of a patient diary, and count of the number of tablets remaining in the drug container on the patients admission for rectal cancer surgery. Primary outcome(s): Difference in the mean immunohistochemistry (IHC) H-scores for CD133 in resected tumours between the doxycycline and control groups.[Based on rectal cancers surgically resected within 3 weeks of radiotherapy.] Study Design: Purpose: Treatment; Allocation: Non-randomised trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Type of endpoint: Safety/efficacy

DISEASE(S): Cancer-bowel-back Passage (rectum) Or Large Bowel (colon),Rectal Cancer

PROVIDER: 2471032 | ecrin-mdr-crc |

REPOSITORIES: ECRIN MDR

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