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Clinical trialNCT01144169TerminatedPhase 1Interventional

Study of Hydroxychloroquine Before Surgery in Patients With Primary Renal Cell Carcinoma

SponsorUniversity of PittsburghEnrollment7Renal Cell Carcinoma
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Summary

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The main goal of this research study is to determine whether treating patients with renal cell cancer with hydroxychloroquine before surgery can make the cancer easier to kill. Another goal is to see how the study drug affects the body's immune cells which fight cancer cells.
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Investigators

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Sites

2 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Upci/upmc Cancer Centers

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Upmc Department of Urology

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Hydroxychloroquine →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Oct 2010
Primary completion
30 Sept 2016
Completion
30 Sept 2016
Last update posted
26 Oct 2016
Registered enrollment
7
Registry id
NCT01144169
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.