LY231514 Plus Gemcitabine in Treating Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00006007 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : January 27, 2003
Last Update Posted : December 7, 2016
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining LY231514 plus gemcitabine in treating women who have metastatic breast cancer.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Breast Cancer | Drug: gemcitabine hydrochloride Drug: pemetrexed disodium | Phase 2 |
OBJECTIVES:
- Assess the antitumor activity of pemetrexed disodium in combination with gemcitabine in the treatment of women with metastatic breast cancer who have received an anthracycline and a taxane in the adjuvant and/or metastatic setting and no more than 1 chemotherapy regimen for metastatic disease (unless these were a taxane and anthracycline).
- Determine the toxicity of this regimen in this patient population.
- Determine time to progression and overall survival of these patients receiving this regimen.
OUTLINE: Patients receive gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 8. pemetrexed disodium IV is administered over 10 minutes 90 minutes following gemcitabine on day 8. Treatment continues every 21 days for a minimum of 6 courses in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. Patients achieving a complete response receive 2 additional courses.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 5 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 60 patients will be accrued for this study within 1 year.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 59 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase II Study of a Combination of MTA (LY231514) and Gemcitabine in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer |
Study Start Date : | December 2000 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | March 2004 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | May 2008 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: gemcitabine + pemetrexed
Patients receive gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 8. pemetrexed disodium IV is administered over 10 minutes 90 minutes following gemcitabine on day 8. Treatment continues every 21 days for a minimum of 6 courses in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. Patients achieving a complete response receive 2 additional courses. Patients are followed every 3 months for 5 years. |
Drug: gemcitabine hydrochloride Drug: pemetrexed disodium |
- time to progression [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]
- overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed breast cancer with clinical evidence of metastatic disease
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Bidimensionally measurable disease
- If bisphosphonates used, must have measurable disease site other than bone
- No bone only disease
- Must have received a prior anthracycline and taxane in the adjuvant and/or metastatic setting
- No clinically significant pericardial effusions, pleural effusions, or ascites unless they can be drained
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No active CNS metastases
- Treated CNS metastasis that has ben stable for at least 8 weeks allowed
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Hormone receptor status:
- Not specified
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Age:
- 18 and over
Sex:
- Female
Menopausal status:
- Not specified
Performance status:
- ECOG 0-2
Life expectancy:
- At least 3 months
Hematopoietic:
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
Hepatic:
- Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST no greater than 3 times ULN (5 times ULN if liver metastases)
- Albumin at least 3.0 g/dL
Renal:
- Creatinine clearance at least 45 mL/min
Cardiovascular:
- No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease
Other:
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Able to take folic acid and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) supplements
- Body surface area less than 3 m^2
- No uncontrolled infection
- No chronic debilitating disease
- No other prior malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or adequately treated noninvasive carcinomas
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Biologic therapy:
- At least 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy
- At least 4 weeks since prior genetic therapy
- No concurrent immunomodulating agents
Chemotherapy:
- See Disease Characteristics
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No more than 3 prior chemotherapy regimens including adjuvant therapy
- No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen for metastatic disease unless these were a taxane and anthracycline
- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy
- No prior gemcitabine and/or pemetrexed disodium
- No other concurrent cytostatic or cytotoxic chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- Not specified
Radiotherapy:
- At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy
- No prior radiotherapy to greater than 25% of bone marrow
- No prior strontium chloride Sr 89
- No concurrent radiotherapy
Surgery:
- At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery
Other:
- No aspirin or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents 2 days before, the day of, and for 2 days after pemetrexed disodium administration (5 days before for long acting agents such as naproxen, piroxicam, diflunisal, or nabumetone)

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00006007

Study Chair: | Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD | Mayo Clinic |
Responsible Party: | Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00006007 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
NCCTG-983253 NCI-2012-02348 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trials Reporting System) ) CDR0000068015 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) ) |
First Posted: | January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 7, 2016 |
Last Verified: | December 2016 |
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