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A Study of Sativex® for Pain Relief in Patients With Advanced Malignancy.

CompletedPhase 2NCT00530764
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Brief summary (from the registry)

The purpose of this study is to determine the effective dose range and to demonstrate a non-effective dose range of Sativex in patients with advanced cancer, who experience inadequate pain relief even though they are on optimized chronic opioid therapy.

Study details

Official title
A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group Dose-range Exploration Study of Sativex® in Relieving Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer, Who Experience Inadequate Analgesia During Optimized Chronic Opioid Therapy.
Conditions
Interventions
  • Drug: Sativex Low Dose
  • Drug: Sativex Medium Dose
  • Drug: Sativex High Dose
Sponsor
GW Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Collaborators
Quintiles, Inc.
Organization
GWPharm
Start date
2007-11
Primary completion
2010-01
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
Countries
Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Total sites listed
110

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * The patient has advanced active cancer for which there is no known curative therapy. * The patient is able (in the investigators opinion) and willing to comply with all study requirements. * The patient has a clinical diagnosis of cancer related pain, which is not wholly alleviated with their current opioid treatment. * The patient is receiving a sustained release (SR) fixed dose of opioid therapy (excluding Methadone). N.B. The opiate therapy must be Step III according to the World Health Organization (WHO) analgesic ladder. * The patient is willing to continue to take their regular daily baseline opioid regimen (SR) at the same dose, throughout the duration of study. Exclusion Criteria: * The patient should be excluded from entering study if they have received or are due to receive during the study period; chemotherapy, hormone therapy or radiotherapy, which, in the opinion of the investigator will affect their pain. * Any history or immediate family history of schizophrenia, other psychotic illness, severe personality disorder or other significant psychiatric disorder other than depression associated with their underlying condition. * Any known or suspected history of a diagnosed dependence disorder, current heavy alcohol consumption, current use of an illicit drug or current non prescribed use of any prescription drug. * The patient has poorly controlled epilepsy or recurrent seizures (i.e. at least one year since last seizure). * The patient has experienced myocardial infarction or clinically relevant cardiac dysfunction within the last 12 months or has a cardiac disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator would put the patient at risk of a clinically relevant arrhythmia or myocardial infarction.

Canadian sites (2)

FacilityCityProvince
Vancouver Health Research CenterVictoriaBritish Columbia
Jewish General HospitalMontrealQuebec
Canadian sites for NCT00530764VictoriaMontreal
Canadian sites for NCT00530764. 2 mapped locations with coordinates in the registry. Schematic plot, not to scale.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00530764