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Polyglutamate Camptothecin in Treating Patients With Advanced Cancer

This study has been completed.

Sponsors and Collaborators: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00059917
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy such as polyglutamate camptothecin may be able to deliver the drug directly to tumor cells while leaving normal cells undamaged.

PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of polyglutamate camptothecin in treating patients who have advanced cancer.


Condition Intervention Phase
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Drug: polyglutamate camptothecin
Phase I

MedlinePlus related topics:   Cancer   

Drug Information available for:   Camptothecin   

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:   Interventional
Study Design:   Treatment
Official Title:   Phase I Study of CT-2106 in Patients With Advanced Malignancy

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

Study Start Date:   January 2003

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the maximum tolerated dose of polyglutamate camptothecin (CT-2106) in patients with advanced malignancies.
  • Determine the tolerability of this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the safety of this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the disease response in patients treated with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation, multicenter study.

Patients receive polyglutamate camptothecin (CT-2106) IV over 10 minutes on day 1. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive 2 additional courses beyond confirmation of complete response.

Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of CT-2106 until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.

Patients are followed at 3 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 12-48 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

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed advanced malignancy
  • No active brain metastases (as indicated by clinical symptoms, cerebral edema, or progressive tumor growth) that have been unstable for at least 8 weeks

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 18 and over

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

  • At least 12 weeks

Hematopoietic

  • Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin at least 9 g/dL

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST and ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN (5 times ULN if liver metastases are present)

Renal

  • Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN
  • No history of hemorrhagic cystitis
  • No history of microscopic hematuria associated with drug therapy or radiotherapy or of unknown origin

Cardiovascular

  • No significant cardiac disease

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Able to comply with study schedule and assessments
  • No other significant nonmalignant systemic disease
  • No active infection
  • No other condition that would in the investigator's opinion make the patient an inappropriate study candidate

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • No more than 3 prior chemotherapy regimens
  • More than 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior definitive radiotherapy (except for palliative reasons to sites of nonmeasurable disease, in patients with measurable disease at baseline)
  • Concurrent palliative radiotherapy allowed

Surgery

  • More than 4 weeks since prior major thoracic or abdominal surgery

Other

  • Recovered from prior therapy (except alopecia or stable grade 1 neuropathy)
  • More than 4 weeks since prior investigational agents
  • No prior myeloablative therapy
  Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00059917

Locations
United States, New York
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center    
      New York, New York, United States, 10021

Sponsors and Collaborators
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators
Study Chair:     Jakob Dupont, MD     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center    
  More Information


Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site
 

Publications of Results:
McNamara MV, Doroshow JH, Dupont J, et al.: Preliminary pharmacokinetics of CT-2106 (polyglutamate camptothecin) in patients with advanced malignancies. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 22 (Suppl 14): A-2073, 145s, 2004.
 
Springett GM, Takimoto C, McNamara M, et al.: Phase I study of CT-2106 (polyglutamate camptothecin) in patients with advanced malignancies. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 22 (Suppl 14): A-3127, 226s, 2004.
 

Study ID Numbers:   CDR0000298987, MSKCC-03002, CTI-PGC101
First Received:   May 6, 2003
Last Updated:   July 23, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:   NCT00059917
Health Authority:   United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific  

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Camptothecin

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Enzyme Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Pharmacologic Actions

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