Irinotecan in Treating Patients With Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors
Summary
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 irinotecan in treating patients who have advanced neuroendocrine tumors.
Description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine the efficacy of irinotecan in terms of tumor response, time to tumor progression, and survival in patients with advanced high grade neuroendocrine tumors.
- Evaluate the dose limiting and nondose limiting toxicities of this treatment regimen in this patient population.
OUTLINE: Patients receive irinotecan IV over 90 minutes once weekly for 4 weeks. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients are followed until death.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 10-31 patients will be accrued for this study.
Study Design
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Conditions
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
Intervention
irinotecan hydrochloride
Location
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York
New York
United States
10021
Status
Completed
Source
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00004922
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
Published on BioPortfolio: 2014-08-27T03:58:07-0400
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
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Metastases in which the tissue of origin is unknown.
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell
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Carcinoma 256, Walker
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Carcinoma, Endometrioid
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