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Capecitabine in Treating Women With Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer

Phase 2
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Registration Number
NCT00026442
Lead Sponsor
Pharmatech Oncology
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of two different doses of capecitabine in treating women who have advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* Compare the objective response rate in women with advanced or metastatic breast cancer treated with two dose levels of capecitabine.

* Compare the duration of response, time to progression, time to treatment failure, survival, incidence of adverse events, and time to onset of the adverse experience in patients treated with this drug.

* Compare the quality of life of patients treated with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to Karnofsky performance status (70-80% vs 90-100%) and presence of hepatic metastases (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms.

* Arm I: Patients receive lower-dose oral capecitabine twice daily on days 1-14.

* Arm II: Patients receive higher-dose oral capecitabine twice daily on days 1-14.

In both arms, courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline, at the end of the third and sixth courses, and at completion of therapy.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 120 patients (60 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 9 months.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (10)

Hematology Oncology Associates of theTreasure Coast - Port St. Lucie

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Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States

Maryland Hematology/Oncology Associates

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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Medical Oncology Care Associates

🇺🇸

Orange, California, United States

Family Cancer Center

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Collierville, Tennessee, United States

North Florida Cancer Center

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St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Logan Regional Hospital

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Logan, Utah, United States

Charleston Hematology-Oncology, P.A.

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Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Oncology Clinic, P.C.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Antelope Valley Hospital

🇺🇸

Lancaster, California, United States

California Cancer Medical Center

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West Covina, California, United States

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