Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

May 14, 2012 updated by: Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research

A Randomized Phase II Trial Of Capecitabine And Different Schedules Of Irinotecan As First Line Treatment For Advanced Or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare the efficacy of different schedules of irinotecan in combination with capecitabine as first-line therapy, in terms of objective response rate, in patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer.
  • Compare the time to treatment failure, time to progression, and overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.
  • Compare the safety profile, in terms of toxicity, of these regimens in these patients.
  • Determine the quality of life in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to performance status (0 vs 1); disease symptoms, including pain, weight loss, loss of appetite, malaise, and fever of unknown origin (yes vs no); weight loss during the past 6 months (more than 5% vs 5% or less); and disease-free interval (more than 6 months vs 6 months or less). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients receive irinotecan IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 and oral capecitabine twice daily on days 1-14 and 22-35.
  • Arm II: Patients receive irinotecan IV over 1 hour on days 1 and 22 and oral capecitabine as in arm I.

Treatment in both arms repeats every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline, on day 1 of each course, and at the first visit after treatment failure.

Patients are followed every 12 weeks for 1 year and then every 6 months thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 28-74 patients (14-37 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

75

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

  • Switzerland
      • Bern, Switzerland, CH-3010
        • Inselspital, Bern

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 to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer

    • Unresectable disease

  • At least 1 bidimensionally measurable lesion

    • At least 2 cm in perpendicular diameters
  • No evidence of CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 to 75

Performance status:

  • 0-1

Life expectancy:

  • At least 3 months

Hematopoietic:

  • WBC at least 3,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin normal
  • SGOT/SGPT no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2.5 times ULN

Renal:

  • Creatinine no greater than 1.25 times ULN

Cardiovascular:

  • No clinically significant cardiac disease
  • No congestive heart failure
  • No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease
  • No symptomatic coronary artery disease
  • No uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia
  • No myocardial infarction within the past year

Gastrointestinal:

  • No evidence of dysphagia
  • No malabsorption or intestinal obstruction that would affect absorption or excretion of study drugs
  • No chronic diarrhea

Other:

  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or localized nonmelanoma skin cancer
  • No psychiatric disability that would preclude study compliance
  • No other significant medical condition
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • No prior chemotherapy for advanced or metastatic disease

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • Not specified

Surgery:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery to the gastrointestinal tract

Other:

  • No concurrent therapy for history of seizures or CNS disorder

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
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Arm A
Irinotecan i.v. 70 mg/m2, day 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; Capecitabine p.o. 2 x 1000 mg/m2, d1-14, d22-35;
Drug: Irinotecan 70 mg/m2
Irinotecan i.v. 70 mg/m2, day 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Active Comparator: Arm B
Irinotecan i.v. 240 mg/m2 day 1 and day 22; Capecitabine p.o. 2 x 1000 mg/m2, d1-14, d22-35;
Drug: Irinotecan 240 mg/m2
Irinotecan i.v. 240 mg/m2 day 1 and day 22

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Markus M. Borner, MD, University Hospital Inselspital, Berne

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2001

Primary Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2002

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2003

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 14, 2002

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 24, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

June 25, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

May 15, 2012

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 14, 2012

Last Verified

May 1, 2012

More Information

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Keywords

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • SAKK 41/00
  • EU-20141

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