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Fluorouracil and Low-Dose Suramin as Chemosensitization in Treating Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell (Kidney) Cancer

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00083109
First received: May 14, 2004
Last updated: January 16, 2013
Last verified: January 2013
History of Changes
  Purpose

Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Suramin may increase the effectiveness of fluorouracil by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of fluorouracil and the chemosensitizer suramin and to see how well they work in treating patients with metastatic renal cell (kidney) cancer


Condition Intervention Phase
Recurrent Renal Cell Cancer
Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer
 Drug: suramin
Drug: fluorouracil
Other: pharmacological study
 Phase 1
Phase 2

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Phase I/II Trial Of Low Dose Suramin (CI-1003, NSC#34936) And 5-Fluorouracil In Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)

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MedlinePlus related topics: Cancer
U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Dose of suramin to deliver the target plasma concentrations of 10 to 50 uM (Phase I) [ Time Frame: Up to 48 hours ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Objective response rate (CR + PR) using RECIST criteria (Phase II) [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations or medians and ranges, or frequency counts) and 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. Graphical models will also be used to summarize the data.


Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Time to disease progression (Phase II) [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations or medians and ranges, or frequency counts) and 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. Graphical models will also be used to summarize the data.

  • Progression rate (Phase II) [ Time Frame: 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations or medians and ranges, or frequency counts) and 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. Graphical models will also be used to summarize the data.

  • Progression rate (Phase II) [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations or medians and ranges, or frequency counts) and 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. Graphical models will also be used to summarize the data.

  • Toxicity assessed using NCI CTCAE version 3.0 (Phase II) [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
    Summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations or medians and ranges, or frequency counts) and 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. Graphical models will also be used to summarize the data.


Enrollment: 36
Study Start Date: March 2004
Primary Completion Date: March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment (suramin and fluorouracil)

PHASE I: Patients receive suramin IV over 30 minutes and fluorouracil IV on days 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and 36. Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses suramin and fluorouracil until the dose level allowing 10-50 uM of suramin into the patient's blood is determined without 2 or more of 6 patients experiencing dose-limiting toxicity.

PHASE II: Patients receive suramin and fluorouracil (at the dose level determined in phase I) as in phase I.

In both phases, courses repeat every 8 weeks for up to 1 year in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

 Drug: suramin
Given IV
Other Names:
  • 309 F
  • Antrypol
  • Bayer 205
  • Fourneau 309
  • Germanin
Drug: fluorouracil
Given IV
Other Names:
  • 5-fluorouracil
  • 5-Fluracil
  • 5-FU
Other: pharmacological study
Correlative studies
Other Name: pharmacological studies

Detailed Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Determine the dose of suramin and fluorouracil that would result in plasma concentrations of suramin between 10-50 uM in patients with metastatic renal cell cancer. (Phase I) II. Determine the objective response rate (complete response and partial response) in patients treated with this regimen. (Phase II)

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Determine the preliminary efficacy of this regimen in these patients. (Phase I) II. Determine the pharmacokinetics of low-dose suramin in these patients. (Phase I) III. Determine the time to tumor progression and progress rate at 3 and 6 months in patients treated with this regimen. (Phase II)

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation phase I study followed by a phase II study.

PHASE I: Patients receive suramin IV over 30 minutes and fluorouracil IV on days 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and 36. Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses suramin and fluorouracil until the dose level allowing 10-50 uM of suramin into the patient's blood is determined without 2 or more of 6 patients experiencing dose-limiting toxicity.

PHASE II: Patients receive suramin and fluorouracil (at the dose level determined in phase I) as in phase I.

In both phases, courses repeat every 8 weeks for up to 1 year in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed for survival.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 36 patients will be accrued for this study.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Histologically confirmed renal cell cancer

    • Metastatic disease

  • Measurable or evaluable disease

    • Measurable disease required for phase II
  • No untreated CNS metastasis or CNS metastases progressing ≤ 4 weeks after prior radiotherapy
  • Performance status - ECOG 0-1
  • At least 12 weeks
  • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL
  • AST ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 5 times ULN
  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • Creatinine ≤ 1.8 mg/dL
  • Calcium ≤ ULN
  • No untreated hypercalcemia
  • No symptomatic congestive heart failure
  • No unstable angina pectoris
  • No cardiac arrhythmia
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must be surgically sterile or use effective contraception
  • No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
  • No known severe hypersensitivity to suramin
  • No other concurrent uncontrolled illness
  • No active or ongoing infection
  • No active autoimmune disease
  • No neuropathy ≥ grade 2
  • No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or localized prostate cancer
  • No concurrent filgrastim (G-CSF)
  • No more than 2 prior chemotherapy regimens for renal cell cancer (phase II only)
  • No concurrent corticosteroid dose more than physiologic replacement levels
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy
  • No concurrent radiotherapy
  • Recovered from prior oncologic or other major surgery
  • At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery
  • No concurrent surgery
  • Recovered from all prior anticancer therapy other than alopecia (chronic toxicity < grade 2)
  • At least 4 weeks since prior systemic therapy
  • More than 30 days since prior investigational drugs
  • Concurrent bisphosphonates allowed
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00083109

Locations
United States, Ohio
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
Sponsors and Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Ronald Bukowski The Cleveland Clinic
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00083109     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2012-02586, IRB 6101, U01CA062502, R01CA093871, CDR0000363559
Study First Received: May 14, 2004
Last Updated: January 16, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Adenocarcinoma
Carcinoma
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms
Kidney Neoplasms
Urologic Neoplasms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Fluorouracil
Suramin
Antimetabolites
 Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antinematodal Agents
Anthelmintics
Antiparasitic Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Trypanocidal Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 16, 2013