Isolated Hepatic Perfusion With Melphalan in Treating Patients With Primary Unresectable Liver Cancer or Liver Metastases

NCT ID: NCT00019786

Last Updated: 2012-03-23

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

67 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

1999-08-31

Study Completion Date

2006-01-31

Brief Summary

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

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well isolated hepatic perfusion with melphalan works in treating patients with primary unresectable liver cancer or liver metastases.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine response rate, duration of response, and patterns of recurrence in patients with primary or metastatic, unresectable cancers of the liver after treatment with isolated hepatic perfusion with melphalan.
* Determine the disease-free and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: Patients who are otherwise eligible undergo an exploratory laparotomy of the peritoneal cavity. Patients with peritoneal seeding, unresectable extrahepatic metastases, or unresectable pathologically-involved lymph nodes outside area of portahepatis do not receive treatment. Remaining patients receive isolated hepatic perfusion with melphalan. Liver perfusion proceeds for 1 hour.

Patients are followed at 6 weeks, every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 4 months until disease progression.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A maximum of 67 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

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Colorectal Cancer Islet Cell Tumor Liver Cancer Metastatic Cancer Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

Study Design

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Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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isolated perfusion

Intervention Type DRUG

melphalan

Intervention Type DRUG

conventional surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Renal:

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

Cardiovascular:

* Congestive heart failure allowed if LVEF ≥ 40%

Pulmonary:

* No chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or other chronic pulmonary disease with pulmonary function tests less than 50% predicted for age

Other:

* Weight greater than 30 kg
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* No active infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* At least 1 month since prior anticancer biologic therapy and recovered

Chemotherapy:

* At least 1 month since prior anticancer chemotherapy and recovered

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiotherapy:

* At least 1 month since prior anticancer radiotherapy and recovered

Surgery:

* Not specified

Other:

* Prior intrahepatic arterial infusion therapy allowed
* No chronic use of anticoagulants
* No concurrent immunosuppressive therapy
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

NIH

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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H. Richard Alexander, MD, FACS

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

NCI - Surgery Branch

Locations

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Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Studies Support

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Feldman AL, Libutti SK, Pingpank JF, Bartlett DL, Beresnev TH, Mavroukakis SM, Steinberg SM, Liewehr DJ, Kleiner DE, Alexander HR. Analysis of factors associated with outcome in patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma undergoing surgical debulking and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol. 2003 Dec 15;21(24):4560-7. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2003.04.150.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 14673042 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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99-C-0123

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000067220

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

990123

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

NCT00001820

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: nct_alias

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