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

NCT ID: NCT00003350

Last Updated: 2013-01-10

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

240 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

1999-03-31

Brief Summary

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Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of paclitaxel with that of doxorubicin in treating patients who have advanced AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether paclitaxel is more effective than doxorubicin in treating patients with advanced AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma

Detailed Description

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To compare the effect of therapy with paclitaxel to therapy with liposomal doxorubicin on progression-free survival and on global assessment of quality of life of subjects with advanced AIDS-related K.S.

II. To compare the toxicity profile of intravenous paclitaxel with liposomal doxorubicin in patients with advanced AIDS-related K.S.

III. To compare the overall and complete response rate of intravenous paclitaxel with liposomal doxorubicin in patients with advanced AIDS-related K.S.

IV. To evaluate the effect of intravenous paclitaxel as compared with therapy with liposomal doxorubicin on the clinical course of HIV infection in patients with advanced AIDS-related K.S., by monitoring CD4 and CD8 lymphocyte subsets, HIV viral load and the incidence and type of opportunistic infections.

V. To explore the relationship between viral load and response to the therapy for patients with AIDS-related K.S.

VI. To describe the relationship between "technical" response as measured by the current KS response criteria and the clinical benefit of therapy as measured by the revised KS clinical benefit criteria.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are randomized to receive either paclitaxel (arm I) or doxorubicin HCL liposome(arm II).

Arm I: Patients receive paclitaxel over 3 hours by intravenous infusion. Treatment course repeats every 2 weeks. Patients are evaluated every third course.

Arm II: Patients receive doxorubicin HCL liposome over 30-60 minutes by intravenous infusion. Treatment course is repeated every 3 weeks. Patients are evaluated before every odd course.

Patients in both arms continue treatment if there is no disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with complete response continue on study treatment for 2 courses beyond documented complete response.

Quality of life is assessed before, during, and after treatment.

Patients are followed every 3 months for the first 2 years, then every 6 months for years 2-5, and then annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: There will be 240 patients (120 patients in each arm) accrued into this study over 24 months.

Conditions

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AIDS-related Kaposi Sarcoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Arm I (paclitaxel)

Patients receive paclitaxel over 3 hours by intravenous infusion. Treatment course repeats every 2 weeks. Patients are evaluated every third course.

Patients in both arms continue treatment if there is no disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with complete response continue on study treatment for 2 courses beyond documented complete response.

Quality of life is assessed before, during, and after treatment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

paclitaxel

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

laboratory biomarker analysis

Intervention Type OTHER

Correlative studies

quality-of-life assessment

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Ancillary studies

Arm II (pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride)

Patients receive doxorubicin HCL liposome over 30-60 minutes by intravenous infusion. Treatment course is repeated every 3 weeks. Patients are evaluated before every odd course.

Patients in both arms continue treatment if there is no disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with complete response continue on study treatment for 2 courses beyond documented complete response.

Quality of life is assessed before, during, and after treatment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

laboratory biomarker analysis

Intervention Type OTHER

Correlative studies

quality-of-life assessment

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Ancillary studies

Interventions

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paclitaxel

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

laboratory biomarker analysis

Correlative studies

Intervention Type OTHER

quality-of-life assessment

Ancillary studies

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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Anzatax Asotax TAX Taxol CAELYX Dox-SL DOXIL doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome LipoDox quality of life assessment

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Serologic diagnosis of HIV infection as documented by a positive ELISA and confirmed with a western blot, other federally approved HIV diagnostic test, or HIV viral load measurement
* Biopsy-proven, measurable Kaposi's sarcoma with any of the following:

* Progressive cutaneous disease
* Symptomatic oropharyngeal or conjunctival lesions
* Any visceral involvement
* Tumor-related lymphedema
* Tumor-related ulceration or pain
* NOTE: All patients must have measurable disease; baseline measurements must be obtained \< 4 weeks prior to registration
* ECOG performance status 0-2
* ANC \>= 1000/mm³ (with or without the use of colony-stimulating factors)
* Platelet count \>= 50,000/mm³
* Hemoglobin \>= 8 gm/dL
* Bilirubin \< 1.5 x the upper limit of normal (unless elevation is due to Crixivan administration with isolated elevation in conjugated bilirubin)
* SGOT or SGPT =\< 5 x the upper limit of normal
* Creatinine =\< 2.1 mg/dl
* Women must not be pregnant or lactating due to potential toxicity of therapy
* Women of childbearing potential and sexually active men must be advised to use an accepted and effective method of contraception due to potential toxicity of therapy
* No prior systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma
* Prior radiation therapy must have been discontinued \>= 7 days prior to randomization and must NOT have been delivered to marker lesions; (NOTE: Radiation therapy will not be permitted during study treatment)
* No active, untreated infection (no new opportunistic infectious complications within the previous week requiring a change in antibiotics); maintenance therapy for opportunistic infections will be allowed
* No prior or concomitant malignancy other than curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or basal/squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
* No neuropsychiatric history or altered mental status that might prevent informed consent or affect the ability of the patient to comply with the study
* Institutions must ask patients to participate in the quality of life portion of the protocol; however, patients may decline participation in this component of the study and still be eligible; the reason for refusal or inability to complete the QOL assessments must be documented in the Assessment Compliance Form (#596)
* Must not be known to be sensitive to E. coli derived proteins
* No history of cardiac insufficiency (NY Heart Association status \>= 2)
* Patients must be on stable (no change in drugs or doses) antiretroviral therapy for greater than 14 days prior to study; a combination regimen is required; ideally this will be a protease inhibitor containing triple therapy regimen
* Patients must give signed, written informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jamie Von Roenn

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Locations

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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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E1D96

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

U10CA021115

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

CDR0000066331

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NCI-2012-03149

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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