Combination Chemotherapy and Tamoxifen in Treating Patients With Solid Tumors

July 9, 2013 updated by: Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre

Cisplatin, Doxorubicin and Tamoxifen in the Treatment of Incurable Soft Tissue and Endocrine Malignancies

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin and doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Estrogen can stimulate the growth of tumor cells. Hormone therapy using tamoxifen may fight cancer by blocking the uptake of estrogen. Combining tamoxifen with chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving cisplatin and doxorubicin together with tamoxifen works in treating patients with solid tumors.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the feasibility and efficacy of cisplatin, doxorubicin, and tamoxifen (CAT) in patients with soft tissue sarcoma, glioma, mesothelioma, hepatoma, thyroid cancer, or adrenal cancer.
  • Determine the toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 1-2 hours followed immediately by doxorubicin IV over 15-30 minutes on days 1-3 and oral tamoxifen twice daily on days 4-17. Treatment continues every 3 weeks in the absence of the total cumulative doxorubicin dose reaching at least 500 mg/m2, disease progression, or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who achieve partial remission (PR) undergo local surgery or radiotherapy, if feasible, to convert PR to complete remission.

Patients are followed every 2 months for 1 year and then every 3 months for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 14-30 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

30

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Canada
    • Ontario
      • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 1C4
        • Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre at Ottawa Hospital - General Campus

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

No older than 65 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically proven soft tissue sarcoma, glioma, mesothelioma, hepatoma, thyroid cancer, or adrenal cancer with clinical, radiological, or histologic evidence of incurability
  • Patients with thyroid cancer must have failed radioactive iodine
  • Measurable or evaluable disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 65 and under

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-2

Hematopoietic:

  • Granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm3
  • Platelet count at least 140,000/mm3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin normal

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 1.47 mg/dL

Cardiovascular:

  • Left ventricular ejection fraction at least 50% by MUGA scan
  • No congestive heart failure
  • No severe, uncontrolled hypertension
  • No ischemia, life-threatening arrhythmia, or conduction disturbance by ECG

Other:

  • No allergy to study medications
  • No uncontrolled infection
  • No active abuse of ethanol that would preclude treatment
  • No other prior or concurrent malignancy
  • Not pregnant
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen
  • No prior anthracycline or cisplatin
  • At least 3 weeks since other prior chemotherapy and recovered

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No prior radiotherapy to more than 25% of bone marrow
  • At least 3 weeks since other prior radiotherapy and recovered

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Stan Z. Gertler, MD, FRCPC, Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

  • Gertler SZ, Yau J, Stewart DJ, et al.: Cisplatin, doxorubicin and tamoxifen (CAT) in the treatment of incurable soft tissue and endocrine malignancies-preliminary results. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 15: A1427, 1996.

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

May 1, 1994

Study Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2005

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 1, 1999

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

July 10, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 9, 2013

Last Verified

May 1, 2005

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CAN-OTT-9401
  • CDR0000063892 (Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query))
  • NCI-V94-0566

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