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Clinical Trials/NCT00662233
NCT00662233CompletedPhase 1

A Pilot Study for Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Mayo Clinic1 site in 1 country28 target enrollmentStarted: October 1, 1991Last updated:
Conditions
Drugs

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Phase 1
Status
Completed
Enrollment
28
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Long term disease-free survival

Study Overview

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy works in treating patients with sarcoma.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • To evaluate the efficacy, in terms of clinical response, pathologic response, and long-term disease-free survival, of a multidrug chemotherapy regimen patients with spindle cell or small round cell sarcoma.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

  • Induction therapy: Patients receive vincristine IV, cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour and doxorubicin hydrochloride IV over 48 hours on day 1 in week 0. Patients continue to receive vincristine IV once weekly in weeks 1 and 2. Patients also receive etoposide IV over 1 hour and ifosfamide IV over 1 hour for 5 days in week 3. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks for 2 courses.
  • Local control: After completing induction therapy, patients are reevaluated for local control therapy. Some patients may undergo surgery and/or radiotherapy (e.g., brachytherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy, external beam therapy). Patients who undergo surgery begin consolidation therapy 2 weeks after completing surgery. Some patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 5½ weeks beginning at week 12 and/or after surgery (weeks 15-16).
  • Consolidation therapy: Patients receive vincristine IV, doxorubicin hydrochloride IV over 1 hour, and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour once in weeks 12 and 18*. Patients also receive etoposide IV over 1 hour and ifosfamide IV over 1 hour for 5 days in week 15. Patients are reevaluated for local control therapy at week 21.

NOTE: *Patients undergoing radiotherapy do not receive doxorubicin hydrochloride in week 18 or week 24.

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
Na
Intervention Model
Single Group
Primary Purpose
Treatment

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
— to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Inclusion Criteria

  • •DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • •Diagnosis of any of the following:
  • •High-grade nonmetastatic, nonrhabdomyosarcomatous soft tissue sarcomas (excluding undifferentiated sarcoma and Ewing sarcoma)
  • •Small round cell sarcomas (excluding primitive neuroectodermal tumors of soft tissue) (closed to accrual)
  • •Undifferentiated sarcomas (closed to accrual)
  • •Rhabdomyosarcomas (excluding non-parameningeal head tumors, vaginal or stage I paratesticular) (closed to accrual)
  • •All alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas (closed to accrual)
  • •No evidence distant metastatic disease (i.e., lung, bone, bone marrow)
  • •Local or regional nodal disease allowed
  • •No spindle cell tumors of bone
  • •Primary lesions do not have to be resectable
  • •PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • •Creatinine ≤1.5 mg/dL OR creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min/
  • •AST/ALT < 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • •Total bilirubin < 2 times ULN
  • •LVEF ≥ 45%
  • •No prior history of cancer
  • •Not pregnant or nursing
  • •Negative pregnancy test
  • •PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • •Patients who have undergone radiation therapy after initial surgery are eligible but must have evaluation for metastatic disease within 2 weeks of starting chemotherapy
  • •No prior chemotherapy

Exclusion Criteria

  • Not provided

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Long term disease-free survival

Clinical response of the tumors

Pathologic response of the tumors

Efficacy in terms of long-term disease-free survival

Secondary Outcomes

No secondary outcomes reported

Investigators

Sponsor Class
Other
Responsible Party
Sponsor

Study Sites (1)

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