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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy such as gemcitabine, carboplatin, and paclitaxel use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which chemotherapy regimen is more effective in treating non-small cell lung cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of different combination chemotherapy regimens in treating patients who have stage IIIB, stage IV, or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer.
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OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to weight loss within the past 6 months (less than 5% vs at least 5%), disease stage (IIIB vs IV), and brain metastases (present vs absent). Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms.
In all arms, treatment repeats every 3 weeks for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Quality of life is assessed at baseline, every 6 weeks during study treatment, and then every 3 months until progressive disease is documented.
Patients are followed every 3 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 1,134 patients (378 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 2 years.
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of 1 of the following types:
Evidence of at least 1 of the following:
Clinically documented recurrent disease after prior radiation or surgery
Stage IV disease (distant metastases)
Stage IIIB disease presenting with 1 of the following:
Measurable or evaluable disease
No brain metastases unless clinically stable after surgery and/or radiotherapy
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PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Biologic therapy
Chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy
Radiotherapy
Surgery
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