Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Primary Outcome Measures :

  1. To compare the Overall Survival (OS) of HCC patients who receive brivanib as adjuvant treatments to TACE therapy, with the OS of HCC patients who receive matched placebo with TACE therapy [ Time Frame: Survival will be assessed continuously ]


Secondary Outcome Measures :

  1. To compare the Time-To-Disease Progression (TTDP) of patients receiving brivanib with TACE therapy to that of patients receiving placebo with TACE therapy [ Time Frame: Every 8 weeks ]

  2. To compare the time to extrahepatic spread or vascular invasion in the brivanib and placebo arms [ Time Frame: Every 8 weeks ]

  3. To determine the total number of TACE sessions in the brivanib and placebo arms and to compare the rate of TACE sessions in the brivanib and placebo arms [ Time Frame: End of Study ]

  4. To evaluate the safety of brivanib in combination with TACE [ Time Frame: Every 8 weeks ]

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study:  

18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)

Sexes Eligible for Study:  

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:  

No

Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Cirrhotic status of Child-Pugh Class A or B with a score of 7

  • ECOG performance status of 0 or 1

  • Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal function

Exclusion criteria:

  • Prior use of any systemic anticancer chemotherapy, immunotherapy, investigational or molecular targeted agents for HCC

  • History of cardiac disease

  • Active and untreated hepatitis B

  • Inability to swallow tablets or untreated malabsorption syndrome

  • History of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection