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Doxorubicin With or Without Ifosfamide and Pegfilgrastim in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Phase 3
Completed
Conditions
Sarcoma
Registration Number
NCT00061984
Lead Sponsor
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy such as doxorubicin and ifosfamide use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Colony-stimulating factors, such as pegfilgrastim, cause the body to make blood cells. It is not yet known whether doxorubicin alone is more effective with or without ifosfamide and pegfilgrastim in treating soft tissue sarcoma.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving doxorubicin alone to see how well it works compared to giving doxorubicin together with ifosfamide and pegfilgrastim in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* Compare the progression-free and overall survival of patients with locally advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma treated with doxorubicin with vs without ifosfamide and pegfilgrastim as first-line therapy.

* Compare the response in patients treated with these regimens.

* Compare the treatment-related mortality of patients treated with these regimens.

* Compare the toxicity of these regimens in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open-label, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to WHO performance status (0 vs 1), age group (less than 50 years of age vs 50 years of age and over), presence of liver metastases (yes vs no), histological grade (2 vs 3), and participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

* Arm I: Patients receive doxorubicin IV on day 1 (or IV continuously on days 1-3).

* Arm II: Patients receive doxorubicin IV on days 1-3 and ifosfamide IV over 4 hours on days 1-4. Patients also receive pegfilgrastim subcutaneously on day 5.

In both arms, treatment repeats every 3 weeks for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 8 weeks until disease progression and then every 12 weeks thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 450 patients will be accrued for this study within 4 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
455
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Overall survival
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Response as assessed by RECIST criteria
Toxicity as assessed by CTC 2.0
Treatment-related mortality

Trial Locations

Locations (41)

Centre Leon Berard

🇫🇷

Lyon, France

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

🇨🇭

Lausanne, Switzerland

Doctor H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre

🇨🇦

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Derriford Hospital

🇬🇧

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital

🇳🇱

Amsterdam, Netherlands

University Medical Center Groningen

🇳🇱

Groningen, Netherlands

Tom Baker Cancer Centre - Calgary

🇨🇦

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

U.Z. Gasthuisberg

🇧🇪

Leuven, Belgium

Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment at Newcastle General Hospital

🇬🇧

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Cross Cancer Institute at University of Alberta

🇨🇦

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Institut Jules Bordet

🇧🇪

Brussels, Belgium

Karl-Franzens-University Graz

🇦🇹

Graz, Austria

Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen

🇧🇪

Edegem, Belgium

Copenhagen County Herlev University Hospital

🇩🇰

Copenhagen, Denmark

Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre

🇨🇦

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

McGill Cancer Centre at McGill University

🇨🇦

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aarhus Universitetshospital - Aarhus Sygehus

🇩🇰

Aarhus, Denmark

Institut Bergonie

🇫🇷

Bordeaux, France

CHU de la Timone

🇫🇷

Marseille, France

Medizinische Universitaetsklinik I at the University of Cologne

🇩🇪

Cologne, Germany

Universitatsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus

🇩🇪

Dresden, Germany

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

🇩🇪

Hannover, Germany

Universitaetsklinikum Essen

🇩🇪

Essen, Germany

Klinikum der Stadt Mannheim

🇩🇪

Mannheim, Germany

Klinikum der Universitaet Muenchen - Grosshadern Campus

🇩🇪

Munich, Germany

Southwest German Cancer Center at Eberhard-Karls-University

🇩🇪

Tuebingen, Germany

Universitair Medisch Centrum St. Radboud - Nijmegen

🇳🇱

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Leiden University Medical Center

🇳🇱

Leiden, Netherlands

University Medical Center Rotterdam at Erasmus Medical Center

🇳🇱

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Vall d'Hebron University Hospital

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

National Cancer Institute - Bratislava

🇸🇰

Bratislava, Slovakia

Royal Marsden - London

🇬🇧

London, England, United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hospital at University Hospital of Birmingham NHS Trust

🇬🇧

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Leeds Cancer Centre at St. James's University Hospital

🇬🇧

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

University College of London Hospitals

🇬🇧

London, England, United Kingdom

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

🇬🇧

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cancer Research Centre at Weston Park Hospital

🇬🇧

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Edinburgh Cancer Centre at Western General Hospital

🇬🇧

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Western Infirmary

🇬🇧

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Gartnavel General Hospital

🇬🇧

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hospital Universitario San Carlos

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

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