Combination Chemotherapy Plus Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Melanoma
- Conditions
- Melanoma (Skin)
- Interventions
- Registration Number
- NCT00004141
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Chicago
- Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Biological therapies use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cell from growing. Combining more than one drug with different types of biological therapies may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy plus biological therapy in treating patients who have metastatic melanoma.
- Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES:
* Determine the toxicity of cisplatin and dacarbazine followed by sargramostim (GM-CSF), interferon alfa, and interleukin-2 in patients with metastatic melanoma.
* Determine the objective response rate, relapse free survival, and overall survival of these patients on this regimen.
OUTLINE: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 1 hour and dacarbazine IV over 30-60 minutes sequentially on day 1, followed by sargramostim (GM-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) on days 2-7, interleukin-2 SC on days 8-14, and interferon alfa SC on days 8, 10, 12, and 14. Treatment repeats every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients are followed every 8 weeks until disease progression, and then every 8-12 weeks thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15-45 patients will be accrued for this study within 3 years.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 46
Not provided
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Arm A Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor CDDP (75 mg/m2) and DTIC (660 mg/m2) will be administered sequentially by intravenous infusion in day 1. Subsequently, GM-CSF (450 mg/ m2) will be administered SC days 2-7; IL-2 (11 MU daily) will be given SC days 8-14, and IFN-2b (9 MU) will be given SC days 8, 10, 12, and 14. Arm A Cisplatin CDDP (75 mg/m2) and DTIC (660 mg/m2) will be administered sequentially by intravenous infusion in day 1. Subsequently, GM-CSF (450 mg/ m2) will be administered SC days 2-7; IL-2 (11 MU daily) will be given SC days 8-14, and IFN-2b (9 MU) will be given SC days 8, 10, 12, and 14. Arm A dacarbazine CDDP (75 mg/m2) and DTIC (660 mg/m2) will be administered sequentially by intravenous infusion in day 1. Subsequently, GM-CSF (450 mg/ m2) will be administered SC days 2-7; IL-2 (11 MU daily) will be given SC days 8-14, and IFN-2b (9 MU) will be given SC days 8, 10, 12, and 14.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Objective response rate 2 years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Chicago Cancer Research Center🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States