Capecitabine and Gemcitabine in Treating Patients With Metastatic Kidney Cancer

July 12, 2016 updated by: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

A Phase II Study Of Capecitabine Plus Gemcitabine For Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

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: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining capecitabine with gemcitabine in treating patients who have metastatic kidney cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the objective response rate in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with gemcitabine and capecitabine.
  • Determine the duration of overall and progression-free survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

60

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
    • Quebec
      • Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 1S6
        • McGill University
  • United States
    • California
      • La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0658
        • Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center
      • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
        • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
      • San Francisco, California, United States, 94121
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco
      • San Francisco, California, United States, 94143-0128
        • UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
    • Delaware
      • Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 19899
        • CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
    • District of Columbia
      • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20307-5000
        • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
      • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007
        • Lombardi Cancer Center
    • Florida
      • Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140
        • CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center
    • Illinois
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612-7323
        • MBCCOP - University of Illinois at Chicago
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Westside Hospital)
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637-1470
        • University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
    • Indiana
      • South Bend, Indiana, United States, 46601
        • CCOP - Northern Indiana CR Consortium
    • Iowa
      • Bettendorf, Iowa, United States, 52722
        • Hematology Oncology Associates of the Quad Cities
      • Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242-1009
        • Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
        • Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
        • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
      • Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655
        • University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center - University Campus
    • Minnesota
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55417
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Minneapolis
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
        • University of Minnesota Cancer Center
    • Missouri
      • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65201
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Columbia (Truman Memorial)
      • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65203
        • Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
      • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
        • Barnes-Jewish Hospital
      • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63131
        • Missouri Baptist Cancer Center
    • Nebraska
      • Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-7680
        • University of Nebraska Medical Center
    • Nevada
      • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106
        • CCOP - Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
    • New Hampshire
      • Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756-0002
        • Norris Cotton Cancer Center
    • New York
      • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263-0001
        • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
      • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14215
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Buffalo
      • Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030
        • CCOP - North Shore University Hospital
      • Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030
        • North Shore University Hospital
      • New York, New York, United States, 10021
        • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
      • New York, New York, United States, 10029
        • Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
      • New York, New York, United States, 10021
        • Weill Medical College of Cornell University
      • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
        • State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
      • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Syracuse
      • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13217
        • CCOP - Syracuse Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York, P.C.
    • North Carolina
      • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7295
        • Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
      • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Durham
      • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
        • Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
      • Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27104-4241
        • CCOP - Southeast Cancer Control Consortium
      • Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157-1082
        • Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University
    • Ohio
      • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210-1240
        • Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital - Ohio State University
    • Pennsylvania
      • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224
        • Western Pennsylvania Hospital
    • Rhode Island
      • Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
        • Lifespan: The Miriam Hospital
    • Texas
      • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235-9154
        • Simmons Cancer Center - Dallas
    • Vermont
      • Bennington, Vermont, United States, 05201
        • Green Mountain Oncology Group
      • Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05401-3498
        • Vermont Cancer Center
      • White River Junction, Vermont, United States, 05009
        • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - White River Junction
    • Virginia
      • Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298-0037
        • MBCCOP - Massey Cancer Center

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 renal cell carcinoma

    • Clinically confirmed metastatic disease (histologic documentation of metastatic disease not required)
  • Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinomas allowed
  • No pure sarcomas
  • No collecting duct (duct of Bellini) tumors, oncocytomas, or transitional cell tumors

  • Measurable disease

    • At least 20 mm by conventional techniques OR
    • At least 10 mm by spiral CT scan

    • Nonmeasurable lesions include the following:

      • Bone lesions
      • Leptomeningeal disease
      • Ascites
      • Pleural/pericardial effusion
      • Lymphangitis cutis/pulmonis
      • Abdominal masses that are not confirmed and followed by imaging techniques
      • Cystic lesions
  • Patients with known brain metastases are eligible if they have undergone prior surgical resection and/or cranial irradiation, they currently do not require steroids or anticonvulsants, and there is no progressive disease on CT scan or MRI at least 4 weeks after completion of radiotherapy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 18 and over

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal

Renal

  • Creatinine clearance at least 30 mL/min

Cardiac

  • No clinically significant cardiac disease
  • No congestive heart failure
  • No symptomatic coronary artery disease
  • No cardiac arrhythmias not well controlled with medication
  • No myocardial infarction within the past 12 months

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception during and for 3 months after study
  • No prior severe reaction to fluoropyrimidine therapy or known sensitivity to fluorouracil
  • No malabsorption syndrome or lack of physical integrity of the upper gastrointestinal tract that would preclude absorption of capecitabine

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy and recovered
  • No prior gemcitabine
  • No prior fluoropyrimidines (e.g., fluorouracil, floxuridine, capecitabine, or fluorouracil-uracil)
  • No other concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 4 weeks since prior megestrol
  • No concurrent hormones (e.g., megestrol) except steroids for adrenal failure, hormones for nondisease-related conditions (e.g., insulin for diabetes), or intermittent dexamethasone as an antiemetic

Radiotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered
  • Prior radiotherapy to any lesion that may produce disability (e.g., unstable femur) allowed
  • No concurrent palliative radiotherapy

Surgery

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery and recovered

Other

  • Any number of prior regimens allowed

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: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Gemcitabine + capecitabine

Patients receive gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 and oral capecitabine twice daily on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for a minimum of 2 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients achieving a complete response (CR) receive at least 2 additional courses beyond CR.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year and then every 6 months for 1 year.
Drug: gemcitabine hydrochloride
Drug: capecitabine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Response rate
Time Frame: Up to 2 years
Up to 2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Overall survival
Time Frame: Up to 2 years
Up to 2 years
Progression-free survival
Time Frame: Up to 2 years
Up to 2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

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

October 1, 2002

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2006

Study Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2006

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 5, 2002

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

July 14, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 12, 2016

Last Verified

July 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CALGB-90008
  • U10CA031946 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • CDR0000069488 (Registry Identifier: NCI Physician Data Query)

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