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Paclitaxel in Treating Patients With AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003008
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 11, 2003
Last Update Posted : January 28, 2010
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
AIDS Associated Malignancies Clinical Trials Consortium
Information provided by:
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Study Description
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Brief Summary:

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of paclitaxel in treating patients with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma.


Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Sarcoma Drug: indinavir sulfate Drug: nelfinavir mesylate Drug: paclitaxel Drug: ritonavir Drug: saquinavir mesylate Phase 2

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine whether the body distribution and plasma clearance of paclitaxel is affected by protease inhibitors (e.g., indinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir mesylate, or nelfinavir mesylate).

OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to protease inhibitor treatment (yes vs no), prior paclitaxel (yes vs no), and prior doxorubicin or daunorubicin (yes vs no).

Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours on day 1. Treatment continues every 2 weeks for at least 1 course in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who previously received paclitaxel receive no more than 1 course during this study.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 33 patients will be accrued for this study.


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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment : 33 participants
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Pilot Study to Evaluate the Potential Interactions Between Paclitaxel and Protease Inhibitors in Patients With AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
Study Start Date : June 1997
Actual Primary Completion Date : June 2006

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Drug Information available for: Paclitaxel
U.S. FDA Resources

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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Senior)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed Kaposi's sarcoma requiring chemotherapy and/or currently being treated with paclitaxel
  • Serologic diagnosis of HIV infection documented by a positive ELISA and confirmed with a Western Blot or other federally approved HIV diagnostic test

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,000/mm ^3(with or without the use of colony-stimulating factors)
  • Platelet count at least 50,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST no greater than 2.5 times ULN
  • Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2.5 times ULN

Renal:

  • Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL OR
  • Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min

Neurologic:

  • No greater than grade 2 peripheral neuropathy
  • No neuropsychiatric history or altered mental status that would preclude study

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No other prior or concurrent malignancy except curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
  • No sensitivity to E. coli-derived proteins
  • No active untreated infection
  • No new infectious complications requiring a change in antibiotics within the past 2 weeks

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • At least 1 week since prior radiotherapy
  • No prior radiotherapy to marker lesions
  • No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Other:

  • At least 2 weeks since prior systemic treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma
  • At least 2 weeks since prior nonapproved FDA investigational agents except available Investigational New Drugs that are antiretroviral agents
  • Concurrent maintenance therapy for opportunistic infections allowed
  • Concurrent commercially available antiretroviral therapy allowed
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Locations
United States, Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294-3300
Sponsors and Collaborators
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
AIDS Associated Malignancies Clinical Trials Consortium
Investigators
Study Chair: Jamie Hayden Von Roenn, MD Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
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Responsible Party: Group Chair, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003008     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: CDR0000065583
E1D95
AMC-014
First Posted: July 11, 2003    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: January 28, 2010
Last Verified: January 2010

Keywords provided by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group:
AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma
recurrent Kaposi sarcoma

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sarcoma
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Paclitaxel
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Ritonavir
Nelfinavir
Indinavir
Saquinavir
 Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors