Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Filgrastim in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT ID: NCT00028925

Last Updated: 2016-12-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

27 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2001-11-30

Study Completion Date

2008-08-31

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. Colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with or without filgrastim in treating patients who have extensive-stage small cell lung cancer that has not been previously treated.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the tolerability of topotecan and carboplatin with or without filgrastim (G-CSF) in patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer.
* Determine response and survival rates in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. The first 12 patients are assigned to 1 of 2 treatment regimens (6 per regimen). The next 33 patients receive treatment based on the toxicity experienced by the first 12.

Regimen A:

* Patients receive oral topotecan once daily on days 1-5, carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 5, and filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously once daily beginning on day 6 or 7 and continuing for up to 10 days or until blood counts recover.
* Patients are evaluated after the first 3-week course of chemotherapy. If no patient experiences unacceptable toxicity or febrile neutropenia, or no more than 1 patient experiences an absolute neutrophil count of less than 500/mm3 for more than 5 days, the next 6 patients begin treatment on regimen B. Otherwise, all patients receive treatment as in regimen A.

Regimen B:

* Patients receive topotecan and carboplatin as in regimen A.
* Patients are evaluated after the first 3-week course of chemotherapy. If no patient experiences unacceptable toxicity or febrile neutropenia, the next 33 patients receive treatment as in regimen B; otherwise, patients receive treatment as in regimen A.

Treatment for all patients repeats every 3 weeks for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease progression limited to CNS only interrupt chemotherapy to have whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT). Once WBRT is complete, chemotherapy resumes.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline and at the beginning of each course of chemotherapy.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 49 patients will be accrued for this study within 13.5 months.

Conditions

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Lung Cancer

Keywords

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extensive stage small cell lung cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Regimen A

Patients receive oral topotecan once daily on days 1-5, carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 5, and filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously once daily beginning on day 6 or 7 and continuing for up to 10 days or until blood counts recover.

Treatment for all patients repeats every 3 weeks for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease progression limited to CNS only interrupt chemotherapy to have whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT). Once WBRT is complete, chemotherapy resumes.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline and at the beginning of each course of chemotherapy.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

filgrastim

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

carboplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

topotecan hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

WBRT

Intervention Type RADIATION

Regimen B

Patients receive topotecan and carboplatin as in regimen A. Patients are evaluated after the first 3-week course of chemotherapy. If no patient experiences unacceptable toxicity or febrile neutropenia, the next 33 patients receive treatment as in regimen B; otherwise, patients receive treatment as in regimen A.

Treatment for all patients repeats every 3 weeks for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease progression limited to CNS only interrupt chemotherapy to have whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT). Once WBRT is complete, chemotherapy resumes.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline and at the beginning of each course of chemotherapy.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

filgrastim

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

carboplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

topotecan hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

WBRT

Intervention Type RADIATION

Interventions

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filgrastim

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

carboplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

topotecan hydrochloride

Intervention Type DRUG

WBRT

Intervention Type RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically or cytologically confirmed extensive stage small cell lung cancer

* Previously untreated with chemotherapy
* No mixed histology
* Metastatic disease outside the chest

* Contralateral supraclavicular or hilar nodes that cannot be included in a single radiation port OR
* Cytologically proven malignant pleural effusion
* Measurable disease
* No untreated CNS metastases

* CNS metastases treated with whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) allowed after completion of WBRT

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* 18 and over

Performance status:

* ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

* Not specified

Hematopoietic:

* Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm\^3
* Platelet count at least 100,000/mm\^3

Hepatic:

* AST no greater than 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 5 times ULN
* Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times ULN OR
* Direct bilirubin no greater than ULN

Renal:

* Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN OR
* Creatinine clearance at least 50 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

* No uncontrolled angina pectoris
* No congestive heart failure within the past 3 months unless ejection fraction is greater than 40%
* No uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias
* No myocardial infarction within the past 3 months

Other:

* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception
* No clinically significant infection
* No hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived proteins
* No other malignancy within the past 3 years except non-melanoma skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or localized prostate cancer

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* Not specified

Chemotherapy:

* See Disease Characteristics
* At least 5 years since prior chemotherapy for another malignancy
* No prior nitrosoureas

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiotherapy:

* See Disease Characteristics
* No prior thoracic radiotherapy
* At least 1 day since prior palliative radiotherapy (except to chest)
* No more than 3 fractions to chest for superior vena cava syndrome allowed
* No concurrent radiotherapy (including thoracic radiotherapy)

Surgery:

* More than 3 weeks since prior major surgery
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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James R. Jett, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

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CCOP - Scottsdale Oncology Program

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Site Status

MBCCOP-Howard University Cancer Center

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Site Status

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Illinois Oncology Research Association

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Carle Cancer Center

Urbana, Illinois, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Cedar Rapids Oncology Project

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Iowa Oncology Research Association

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Site Status

Siouxland Hematology-Oncology

Sioux City, Iowa, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Wichita

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Site Status

Wichita Community Clinical Oncology Program

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Ochsner

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Ann Arbor Regional

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Duluth

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

CentraCare Health Plaza

Saint Cloud, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Metro-Minnesota

Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Site Status

Medcenter One Health System

Bismarck, North Dakota, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Merit Care Hospital

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Site Status

Altru Health Systems

Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States

Site Status

CCOP - Toledo Community Hospital Oncology Program

Toledo, Ohio, United States

Site Status

Allegheny General Hospital

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Rapid City Regional Hospital

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Site Status

Allan Blair Cancer Centre

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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United States Canada

References

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Bryce AH, Mattar B, Hillman SL, Adjei AA, Kugler JW, Rowland K Jr, Wender DB, Soori G, Perez EA, Jett JR. Phase II trial of oral topotecan and intravenous carboplatin with G-CSF support in previously untreated patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer: A North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study. Am J Clin Oncol. 2010 Aug;33(4):353-7. doi: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181b0c27f.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19935387 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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NCI-2012-02441

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000069147

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NCCTG-N0027

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id