Internal Radiation Therapy With Y-90 Microspheres, External Radiation Therapy With Tomotherapy, and Fluorouracil in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer and Liver Metastases That Cannot Be Removed By Surgery

NCT ID: NCT00436267

Last Updated: 2013-12-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-11-30

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Specialized radiation therapy that delivers a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor may kill more tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving radiation therapy in different ways and giving it together with chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well giving internal radiation therapy and external radiation therapy together with fluorouracil works in treating patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent pancreatic cancer and liver metastases that cannot be removed by surgery.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine tumor response in patients with unresectable, newly diagnosed or recurrent pancreatic cancer and liver metastases treated with selective internal radiotherapy with yttrium Y 90 microspheres, selective external radiotherapy with tomotherapy, and fluoroucacil.
* Determine hepatic and systemic toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

Secondary

* Determine the efficacy of this regimen, in terms of time to progression and survival, in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive fluorouracil IV continuously on days 1-4. Patients undergo selective internal radiotherapy with yttrium Y 90 microspheres on day 2 and selective external radiotherapy with tomotherapy on day 3.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 20 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

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Metastatic Cancer Pancreatic Cancer

Keywords

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recurrent pancreatic cancer stage IV pancreatic cancer liver metastases

Study Design

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Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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fluorouracil

Intervention Type DRUG

selective external radiation therapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

tomotherapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

yttrium Y 90 glass microspheres

Intervention Type RADIATION

yttrium Y 90 resin microspheres

Intervention Type RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically or cytologically confirmed pancreatic cancer with liver metastases

* Unresectable disease AND meets any of the following criteria:

* Newly diagnosed disease

* No prior treatment
* Received prior treatment and progressed
* Underwent prior pancreatectomy and progressed
* Liver-only disease (receives selective internal radiotherapy only)
* No known CNS metastases
* No known diffuse peritoneal metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

* Karnofsky performance status 80-100%
* Life expectancy \> 3 months
* WBC ≥ 1,500/mm³
* Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
* Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
* Bilirubin \< 2 mg/dL (without extrahepatic biliary obstruction)
* Albumin \> 2 g/dL
* Creatinine \< 2 mg/dL
* Not pregnant

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

* See Disease Characteristics
* Prior surgery, chemotherapy, and biologic therapy allowed
* No prior external beam radiotherapy to liver or pancreatic bed
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Goshen Health System

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Center for Cancer Care at Goshen General Hospital

Principal Investigators

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Kenneth L. Pennington, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Goshen Health System

Locations

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Center for Cancer Care at Goshen General Hospital

Goshen, Indiana, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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CCCGHS-SIRT-SERT

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000530018

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id