NCT01200121

Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Randomized Phase II-study Investigating the Efficacy of Bevacizumab for Symptom Control in Patients With Malignant Ascites Due to Advanced-stage Gastrointestinal Cancers

Extracted Fields (from Registry)
Protocol IDNCT01200121
Registration Date2010-09-13
Statuscompleted
SponsorAIO-Studien-gGmbH
CountryGermany
Industrynot industry
Blindingblinded
Center Typemulticenter RCT
Scopenational RCT
First Patient In2010-02-01
Last Patient Out2014-12-01
Publicationn
Gender %ALL
Mean Age18 Years -
LLM Classifications (Side-by-Side)
Field OPENAI
gpt-4o
Thinking: o3
2914ms / 10353 tok
GLM
glm-5.1
6842ms / 10527 tok
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514
5343ms / 12123 tok
Review
rct_type parallel RCT parallel RCT parallel RCT OK
cancer_status Cancer Cancer Cancer OK
non_cancer_spec N/A N/A N/A OK
setting_patient outpatient outpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: outpatient Requery: outpatient — The intervention, consisting of intraperitoneal infusions of Bevacizumab, involves procedures such as paracentesis that do not necessarily require inpatient hospitalization but can be administered in an outpatient setting.
outpatient outpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: outpatient Requery: outpatient — The intervention involves patients visiting a clinic for repeated intraperitoneal infusions every 14 days over an 8-week treatment period, indicating they are not continuously hospitalized.
outpatient inpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: inpatient Requery: outpatient — The study involves intraperitoneal administration of bevacizumab/placebo through paracentesis procedures, which are typically performed as outpatient procedures where patients come to clinic for treatment but are not admitted overnight.
OK
setting_place hospital other → hospital
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: hospital — The intervention involves repeated intraperitoneal administrations of Bevacizumab, which are typically performed in a medical facility with appropriate monitoring and capabilities, suggesting the primary setting is a hospital.
hospital hospital
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: hospital
hospital hospital → hospital
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: hospital Requery: hospital — The intervention involves intraperitoneal infusions of bevacizumab after paracentesis procedures, which require specialized medical facilities and inpatient care typically found in hospital settings.
OK
feasibility fully powered RCT fully powered RCT fully powered RCT OK
intervention_pharmacologic yes yes yes OK
intervention_chemo_immuno_radio no no → no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The tested intervention, Bevacizumab, is an angiogenesis inhibitor and not classified as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiation therapy. Thinking: no — The intervention is bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF targeted antibody, which is neither chemotherapy, a checkpoint-inhibitor/CAR-T immunotherapy, nor radiation therapy.
no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The active intervention being tested is Bevacizumab, which is a targeted monoclonal antibody (anti-VEGF), and therefore does not fall under the specified categories of chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiation therapy.
no yes → yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — Bevacizumab is an immunotherapy agent (monoclonal antibody targeting VEGF) being tested as the active intervention in this trial. Thinking: no — Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody targeting VEGF for symptom control, not chemotherapy, checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, CAR-T therapy, or radiation therapy.
OK
intervention_complementary no no no OK
intervention_device no no no OK
intervention_psychological no no no OK
intervention_complex no no no OK
intervention_acp no no no OK
intervention_music no no no OK
intervention_screening no no no OK
intervention_palliative no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The trial tests the efficacy of Bevacizumab, a drug, for symptom control in malignant ascites, not palliative care as an intervention.
no no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no
no yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The intervention is testing bevacizumab (a drug) for symptom control in cancer patients, not palliative care consultation or service delivery.
OK
intervention_education no no no OK
intervention_digital no no no OK
intervention_other no no no OK
outcome_symptom yes yes → yes → no
shaky reasoning
✗ No consensus Initial: yes Requery: yes — The trial focuses on symptom control for malignant ascites, which is a direct symptom assessment related to the condition, thus classifying it under outcome_symptom as 'yes'. Thinking: no — The endpoints track paracentesis-free survival and quality-of-life questionnaires but do not use any validated symptom scales such as pain, nausea, ESAS, etc.
yes yes
shaky reasoning
✗ No consensus Initial: yes
no no → no → yes
shaky reasoning
✗ No consensus Initial: no Requery: no — The primary outcome measures paracentesis-free survival and secondary outcomes focus on ascites volume, quality of life, performance status, and safety measures, but no validated symptom assessment instruments are mentioned. Thinking: yes — The primary outcome (paracentesis-free survival) directly measures symptom control of malignant ascites, as paracentesis is performed for symptom relief.
outcome_qol yes yes yes OK
outcome_dignity no no no OK
outcome_cost no no no OK
outcome_other yes yes yes OK
pharmacologic_sub immunotherapy other → immunotherapy
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: immunotherapy — Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of certain cancers, fitting the category of immunotherapy.
immunotherapy off label use → immunotherapy
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: off label use Requery: immunotherapy — Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody, which falls under the immunotherapy classification for cancer treatment.
immunotherapy other → immunotherapy
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: immunotherapy — Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody targeting VEGF used for cancer treatment, which classifies it as immunotherapy.
OK
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