Imatinib Mesylate in Treating Patients With Recurrent Ewing's Family of Tumors or Desmoplastic Small Round-Cell Tumor

February 5, 2010 updated by: City of Hope Medical Center

Phase II Trial of Gleevec (STI571) in Therapy of Ewing's Family of Tumors and Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors

RATIONALE: Imatinib mesylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for tumor cell growth.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well imatinib mesylate works in treating patients with recurrent Ewing's family of tumors or desmoplastic small round-cell tumor.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the effectiveness of imatinib mesylate in patients with recurrent Ewing's family of tumors or desmoplastic small round-cell tumor.
  • Determine the toxic effects of this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the duration of disease-free and overall survival of patients treated with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label study.

Patients receive oral imatinib mesylate twice daily on days 1-28. Courses repeat every 28 days.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 20-40 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

40

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
    • California
      • Duarte, California, United States, 91010-3000
        • City of Hope Comprehensive 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

16 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of Ewing's family of tumors OR desmoplastic small round-cell tumor
  • Must have immunohistochemical evidence of expression of greater than 2+/4+ for either Kit (CD117) or platelet-derived growth factor receptor -a or -b

  • No symptomatic brain metastases

    • Asymptomatic brain metastases are allowed provided patient is not on concurrent anticonvulsants or corticosteroids

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • Over 16

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin greater than 9 g/dL

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin less than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • SGOT and SGPT less than 2.5 times ULN
  • No chronic active hepatitis
  • No cirrhosis
  • No other acute or known chronic liver disease

Renal

  • Creatinine less than 1.5 times ULN

Cardiovascular

  • No concurrent poorly controlled or severe cardiovascular disease

Pulmonary

  • No concurrent poorly controlled or severe pulmonary disease

Other

  • HIV negative
  • No concurrent poorly controlled or severe central nervous system disease
  • No other concurrent poorly controlled or severe nonmalignant disease

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • At least 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • See Disease Characteristics

Radiotherapy

  • At least 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy

Surgery

  • More than 2 weeks since prior major surgery

Other

  • More than 28 days since prior investigational agents

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)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Response rate as measured by RECIST criteria

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Progression-free survival at 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

City of Hope Medical Center

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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

June 1, 2002

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2007

Study Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2007

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 5, 2003

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 5, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

June 6, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 9, 2010

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 5, 2010

Last Verified

February 1, 2010

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDR0000304551
  • P30CA033572 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • CHNMC-IRB-02008

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