Liposomal Doxorubicin and Gemcitabine in Treating Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT ID: NCT00027989

Last Updated: 2013-12-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2001-12-31

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.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining liposomal doxorubicin with gemcitabine in treating women who have metastatic breast cancer.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the objective response rate in women with metastatic breast cancer treated with doxorubicin HCl liposome and gemcitabine.
* Determine the duration of response, time to disease progression, and duration of survival of patients treated with this regimen.
* Determine the quality of life of patients treated with this regimen.
* Determine the quantitative toxicity of this regimen, in terms of incidence, type, and severity, in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive doxorubicin HCl liposome IV over 1 hour on day 1 and gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 8. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who achieve a complete response (CR) receive 2 courses beyond documentation of CR.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline, on day 1 of each course, and then at the end of study.

Patients are followed at 4 weeks and then every 3 months for 5 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 75 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer

Keywords

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stage IV breast cancer

Study Design

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Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Interventions

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gemcitabine hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic breast cancer
* Measurable disease
* Hormone receptor status:

* Not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* 18 and over

Sex:

* Female

Menopausal status:

* Not specified

Performance status:

* Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

* At least 3 months

Hematopoietic:

* Platelet count at least 100,000/mm\^3
* Hemoglobin at least 9 g/dL
* Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm\^3
* No impaired bone marrow function

Hepatic:

* Bilirubin no greater than 2 mg/dL
* AST and ALT no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2 times ULN (unless attributed to tumor)
* No impaired hepatic function

Renal:

* Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL OR
* Creatinine clearance at least 60 mL/min
* No impaired renal function

Cardiovascular:

* No prior cardiac disease within the past 5 years OR
* LVEF at least 50%

Other:

* No prior uncontrolled seizures
* No uncontrolled systemic infection
* No anthracycline resistance
* No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* No prior trastuzumab (Herceptin)

Chemotherapy:

* Prior adjuvant therapy with anthracycline of no more than 320 mg/m\^2 allowed

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiotherapy:

* No prior radiotherapy to more than 1/3 of hematopoietic sites

Surgery:

* Not specified

Other:

* At least 30 days since prior investigational medications and recovered
* No more than 1 prior treatment regimen for metastatic disease
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Pharmatech Oncology

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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Sandy Marcus

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Pharmatech Oncology

Locations

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Montgomery Cancer Center

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Site Status

California Cancer Medical Center

West Covina, California, United States

Site Status

Pharmatech Oncology

Denver, Colorado, United States

Site Status

Oncology-Hematology Associates, P.A.

Clinton, Maryland, United States

Site Status

South Carolina Oncology Associates

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Site Status

South Carolina Oncology Associates

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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PHARMATECH-P01-00002008

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

ORTHO-PHARMATECH-P01-000020008

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

PHARMATECH-20002183

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000069104

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id