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Carboplatin Combined With Paclitaxel in Treating Patients With Advanced Thymoma

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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 2

Conditions

Thymoma
Thymic Carcinoma

Treatments

Drug: carboplatin
Drug: paclitaxel

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

NETWORK
NIH

Identifiers

NCT00010257
CDR0000068461
E1C99 (Other Identifier)
U10CA021115 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of carboplatin combined with paclitaxel in treating patients who have advanced thymoma.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the objective response rate in patients with advanced thymoma or thymic carcinoma treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel.
  • Determine the duration of response in these patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive paclitaxel by intravenous (IV) infusion over 3 hours followed by carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 2 courses in the absence of disease progression. Patients achieving complete or partial remission or stable disease receive 4 additional courses of therapy for a maximum of 6 courses. Further treatment may be given at the discretion of the treating physician.

Patients were followed every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 35-68 patients were to be accrued for this study within 3.8-4.6 years.

Enrollment

46 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Histologically confirmed invasive, recurrent, or metastatic thymoma or thymic carcinoma not amenable to potentially curative therapy by surgery
  • Extensive disease (distant disease, pleural disease, pulmonary with or without mediastinal disease, or recurrent progressive disease in site of prior radiotherapy)
  • Advanced limited disease allowed if ineligible for primary radiotherapy or surgery
  • Measurable disease
  • Age 18 and over
  • ECOG Performance Status 0-1
  • Granulocyte count at least 1,500 cells/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000 cells/mm^3
  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
  • Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
  • Concurrent corticosteroids for myasthenia gravis or other chronic conditions allowed

Exclusion criteria

  • Acute concurrent complications such as infection or post-surgical complications
  • Other prior malignancy within the past 5 years unless curatively treated with no evidence of recurrence
  • Pregnant or nursing. A negative pregnancy test was required, and fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease. Prior preoperative or adjuvant chemotherapy allowed if disease-free survival prior to recurrence was more than 1 year

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

46 participants in 1 patient group

Paclitaxel plus Carboplatin
Experimental group
Description:
Paclitaxel 225 mg/m2 IV over 3 hours and Carboplatin AUC 6.0 IV over 30 minutes on day 1 of a 21-day cycle
Treatment:
Drug: paclitaxel
Drug: carboplatin

Trial contacts and locations

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