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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00206596
Date of registration: 12/09/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Genzyme, a Sanofi Company
Public title: Study in Patients With Crohn's Disease Who Are Steroid Dependent, Despite Previous Unsuccessful Attempts to Reduce Steroids Due to Worsening of Crohn's Disease
Scientific title: Randomized, Stratified, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study of Steroid-Sparing Properties of Sargramostim (Leukine) Therapy in Patients With Cortico-Dependent Crohn's Disease
Date of first enrolment: July 2003
Target sample size: 127
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00206596
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Canada United States
Contacts
Name:     Medical Monitor
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Affiliation:  Genzyme, a Sanofi Company
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- You must have active Crohn's disease at screening and been diagnosed with Crohn's
disease within 6 months at screening.

- You must have steroid dependent disease (receiving between 10-40 mgs/day prednisone
therapy for greater than 3 months prior to screening and had at least one
unsuccessful attempt to reduce cortico-steroids due to worsening of disease).

- You must be able to give yourself an injection of study drug or have another person
help you give the injection.

- You must not be pregnant and agree to use birth control if you are a sexually active
male or female of childbearing potential.

Exclusion Criteria:

- You may not be taking medications not allowed on this study.

- You may not have had GI surgery or bowel obstruction in the last 6 months.

- You may not have ever taken this drug or drugs of similar type in the past.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Crohn Disease
Intervention(s)
Drug: Sargramostim (Leukine)
Drug: Placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
Corticosteroid-free remission [Time Frame: At the end of the study treatment]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Quality of Life using Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionaire, SF 36 and EuroQol-derived visual scale (VAS) [Time Frame: At the end of the study treatment]
Steroid-free remission or response to treatment as defined by the protocol [Time Frame: At the end of the study treatment]
Secondary ID(s)
307501
91282
Novel 2
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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