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Liposomal Lurtotecan in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Head and Neck Cancer
Registration Number
NCT00022594
Lead Sponsor
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
Brief Summary

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

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of liposomal lurtotecan in treating patients who have metastatic or locally recurrent head and neck cancer.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the therapeutic activity of lurtotecan liposome in patients with metastatic or loco-regionally recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

* Determine the objective response, duration of response, and time to progression in patients treated with this drug.

* Determine the toxicity profile of this drug in these patients.

* Determine the possible pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationship of this drug in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to presence of a target lesion in a previously irradiated field (within vs outside).

Patients receive lurtotecan liposome IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 8. Treatment repeats every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 6 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 38-72 patients (19-36 per stratum) will be accrued for this study.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
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 (20)

Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital

🇦🇹

Vienna (Wien), Austria

Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen

🇧🇪

Edegem, Belgium

Centre Jean Perrin

🇫🇷

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer, Georges-Francois Leclerc

🇫🇷

Dijon, France

Centre Oscar Lambret

🇫🇷

Lille, France

CHU de la Timone

🇫🇷

Marseille, France

CRLCC Nantes - Atlantique

🇫🇷

Nantes-Saint Herblain, France

CHU Pitie-Salpetriere

🇫🇷

Paris, France

Centre Henri Becquerel

🇫🇷

Rouen, France

Universitats-Krankenhaus Eppendorf

🇩🇪

Hamburg, Germany

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Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital
🇦🇹Vienna (Wien), Austria

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