Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy to Treat Patients With Limited Stage of Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC)

November 17, 2009 updated by: Eli Lilly and Company

Phase II Study of Concurrent Carboplatin, Pemetrexed, and Radiotherapy for Limited Stage of Small Cell Lung Cancer

This is a multicenter, phase II, open-label trial to evaluate the efficacy of pemetrexed + carboplatin combined with thoracic radiotherapy in patients with Limited Stage of small cell lung cancer

Study Overview

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Two 21-day cycles of pemetrexed (500 milligrams per square meter [mg/m2] intravenous [IV] infusion) and carboplatin (target area under the curve [AUC] 5 IV infusion) followed by two 21-day cycles of pemetrexed (500 mg/m2 IV infusion) and carboplatin (target AUC 5 IV infusion) with concurrent radiotherapy (2 Gray [Gy] per fraction, 5 fractions per week, up to a dose of 50 Gy is administered).

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

4

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

  • Italy
      • Orbassano, Italy, 10043
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • Parma, Italy, 43100
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • San Sisto, Italy, 06156
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • Terni, Italy, 05100
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
  • Poland
      • Poznan, Poland, 60-569
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • Warsaw, Poland, 02-781
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
  • Spain
      • Madrid, Spain, 28035
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 07014
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
      • Valencia, Spain, 46010
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
  • United Kingdom
    • Hants
      • Southampton, Hants, United Kingdom, SO16 6YD
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
    • Surrey
      • Guilford, Surrey, United Kingdom, GU2 7XX
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.
    • West Midlands
      • Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom, WV10 0QP
        • For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician.

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

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Histologic and/or cytologic diagnosis of Limited Stage of small cell lung cancer
  • Measurable disease
  • Good performance status
  • Adequate bone marrow reserve, hepatic, pulmonary and renal functions

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Serious concomitant systemic disorder
  • Prior chemotherapy for this cancer and/or prior thoracic radiotherapy
  • Pregnancy/breast-feeding
  • Significant weight loss over the previous 6 weeks before study entry
  • Inability or unwillingness to take vitamin supplementation and corticosteroids

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: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Pemetrexed + Carboplatin
Drug: pemetrexed
500 milligrams per square meter (mg/m2), intravenous (IV), every 21 days x 2 cycles then 500 mg/m2, IV, every 21 days x 2 cycles
Other Names:
  • Alimta
  • LY231514
Drug: carboplatin
Area under the curve (AUC) 5, intravenous (IV), every 21 days x 2 cycles then AUC 5, IV, every 21 days x 2 cycles
Procedure: radiotherapy
2 Gray (Gy) per fraction, 5 fractions per week, begin day 1, cycle 3 x 5 weeks (Monday-Friday)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Proportion of Patients With a Complete or Partial Response (Overall Response Rate [ORR])
Time Frame: baseline to measured response after chemotherapy and radiation
Overall Response Rate (ORR) was defined as the proportion of participants having either a Complete or Partial response using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria. Complete Response=disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response=30% decrease in sum of longest diameter of target lesions.
baseline to measured response after chemotherapy and radiation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Progression-free Survival
Time Frame: baseline to measured progressive disease
Defined as the time from date of first dose to the first observation of disease progression, or death due to any cause.
baseline to measured progressive disease
Overall Survival
Time Frame: baseline to date of death from any cause, 1 year
Overall survival is the duration from enrollment to death (includes 1 year follow-up). For patients who are alive, overall survival is censored at the last contact.
baseline to date of death from any cause, 1 year
Duration of Response
Time Frame: time of response to progressive disease
The duration of a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) was defined as the time from first objective status assessment of CR or PR to the first time of progression or death as a result of any cause.
time of response to progressive disease
Pharmacology Toxicity
Time Frame: every 21-day cycle for 4 cycles
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) criteria were used for assessing toxicity. Toxicity grade reflected the most severe degree occurring during the evaluated period, not an average. When two criteria were available for similar toxicities, the one resulting in the more severe grade was used. Toxiccity grades range from 0 to 5. Toxicity grade = 5 if that toxicity caused the death of the patient.
every 21-day cycle for 4 cycles

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Eli Lilly and Company

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

Helpful Links

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

September 1, 2007

Primary Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2008

Study Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2008

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 27, 2007

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 27, 2007

First Posted (Estimate)

June 29, 2007

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

November 20, 2009

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 17, 2009

Last Verified

November 1, 2009

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 10015 (Other Identifier: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium)
  • H3E-MC-S095

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Subscribe