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Combination Chemotherapy Followed by Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Patients With Rare Cancer

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Childhood Germ Cell Tumor
Extragonadal Germ Cell Tumor
Head and Neck Cancer
Kidney Cancer
Liver Cancer
Lymphoma
Neuroblastoma
Ovarian Cancer
Retinoblastoma
Sarcoma
Registration Number
NCT00002515
Lead Sponsor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Bone marrow transplantation may allow doctors to give higher doses of chemotherapy and kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with thiotepa, carboplatin, and topotecan followed by bone marrow transplantation in treating patients who have metastatic or progressive rare cancer.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* Improve the long term disease-free survival of patients with rare cancers at high risk for lethal relapse by using myeloablative chemotherapy with thiotepa, carboplatin, and topotecan followed by autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell rescue.

OUTLINE: Autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are harvested. Patients receive high-dose thiotepa IV over 3 hours on days -8 to -6, carboplatin IV over 4 hours on days -5 to -3, and topotecan IV over 30 minutes on days -8 to -4. Autologous bone marrow or PBSC are reinfused on day 0. Patients receive filgrastim (G-CSF) IV twice daily beginning on day 1.

Patients are followed for 1 year.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 50 patients will be accrued for this study within 5 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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New York, New York, United States

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