Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Peritoneal Cancer

January 3, 2014 updated by: Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Phase II Trial Of Combined Resection, Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, And Whole Abdominal Radiation For Treatment Of Peritoneal Mesothelioma

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving the drugs directly into the tumor after surgery and combining them with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy in treating patients who have peritoneal cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the response rate, duration of response, and duration of survival of patients with peritoneal mesothelioma treated with surgery, intraperitoneal chemotherapy, and whole abdominal radiotherapy.
  • Determine the toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients undergo initial surgery, including total omentectomy and excision of gross disease. Approximately 3-4 weeks after surgery, patients receive intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy consisting of doxorubicin IP over 2 hours once weekly on weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10 and cisplatin IP and gemcitabine IP once weekly on weeks 2, 5, 8, and 11. Patients also receive interferon gamma IP once weekly on weeks 13-16.

At approximately week 18-20, patients undergo second-look surgery. Patients with no gross disease receive hyperthermia mitomycin IP and cisplatin IP over 90 minutes.

Approximately 2-4 weeks after second-look surgery, patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 5-7 weeks. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually for 5 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

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

  • United States
    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10032
        • Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University

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

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed malignant mesothelioma
  • Measurable or evaluable disease
  • Ineligible for other high-priority study
  • No CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • Over 18

Performance status:

  • SWOG 0-2
  • Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

  • More than 2 months

Hematopoietic:

  • WBC greater than 3,000/mm3
  • Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin less than 1.5 times normal

Renal:

  • Creatinine clearance at least 45 mL/min
  • BUN less than 1.5 times normal
  • No significant calcium abnormalities

Cardiovascular:

  • No symptomatic cardiovascular disease
  • No New York Heart Association class II, III, or IV heart disease
  • No congestive heart failure
  • No angina pectoris
  • No cardiac arrhythmia
  • No uncontrolled hypertension

Other:

  • No significant phosphate, electrolyte, or other metabolic abnormalities (e.g., metabolic acidosis)
  • No uncontrolled psychiatric disorder or neurologic disease
  • No seizure disorder
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or skin cancer
  • No other serious medical or psychiatric illness
  • No uncontrolled serious infection
  • No senility or emotional instability
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • No more than 2 prior chemotherapy regimens
  • No more than 1 prior intraperitoneal chemotherapy regimen
  • More than 6 weeks since prior chemotherapy
  • No other concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • No concurrent hormonal therapy except for nondisease-related conditions (e.g., insulin for diabetes)
  • Concurrent steroids for antiemesis, premedication, adrenal failure, or septic shock allowed

Radiotherapy:

  • No prior abdominal, pelvic, or lower chest radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • Prior surgical resection preceding disease recurrence allowed
  • More than 1 week since prior surgery

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

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Robert N. Taub, MD, PhD, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

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, 2001

Primary Completion

December 7, 2022

Study Completion

December 7, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 13, 2001

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

January 6, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 3, 2014

Last Verified

January 1, 2004

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDR0000068907
  • CPMC-IRB-13799
  • NCI-G01-2015

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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