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S9900: Surgery With or Without Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
North Central Cancer Treatment Group
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Southwest Oncology Group
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00004011
First received: November 1, 1999
Last updated: January 30, 2013
Last verified: January 2013
History of Changes
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy 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 if surgery plus combination chemotherapy is more effective than surgery alone for non-small cell lung cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of surgery with or without combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have non-small cell lung cancer.


Condition Intervention Phase
Lung Cancer
 Drug: carboplatin
Drug: paclitaxel
Procedure: conventional surgery
 Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Randomized Phase III Trial of Surgery Alone or Surgery Plus Preoperative Paclitaxel/Carboplatin in Clinical Stage IB (T2N0), II (T1-2N1, T3N0) and Selected IIIA (T3N1) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Cancer Lung Cancer
U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Southwest Oncology Group:

Enrollment: 354
Study Start Date: October 1999
Study Completion Date: November 2012
Primary Completion Date: May 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: preooperative chemo followed by surgery
carboplatin paclitaxel conventional surgery
 Drug: carboplatin Drug: paclitaxel Procedure: conventional surgery
Active Comparator: Surgery alone
conventional surgery
 Procedure: conventional surgery

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare survival of patients with previously untreated stage IB, II, or selected IIIA non-small cell lung cancer after preoperative chemotherapy comprising paclitaxel and carboplatin plus surgery vs surgery alone.
  • Compare these regimens in terms of operative mortality and other toxic effects in these patients.
  • Evaluate the response rates (confirmed and unconfirmed) and toxic effects associated with combined paclitaxel and carboplatin in these patients.
  • Obtain samples for correlation of radiologic, pathologic, molecular, and biologic factors with the outcome in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to clinical stage (IB or IIA vs IIB or IIIA).

Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms:

  • Arm I: Patients undergo thoracotomy. All accessible hilar (level 10) lymph nodes are dissected, and complete mediastinal lymph node sampling is performed.
  • Arm II: Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours followed by carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for a maximum of 3 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Within 2-6 weeks of course 3, patients undergo thoracotomy and lymph node dissection as in arm I.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 5 years, and then annually until year 10.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 600 patients (300 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 4 years.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically or cytologically proven non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), meeting 1 of the following staging criteria:

    • Stage IB (T2, N0)

    • Stage II

      • T1-2, N1 with negative mediastinoscopy OR
      • T3, N0

    • Selected stage IIIA with negative mediastinoscopies

      • T3, N1, excluding superior sulcus
      • Positive level 10 hilar nodes allowed if mediastinoscopy negative
  • Apical tumors with no clinical symptoms allowed

  • No symptomatic tumors (T3, N0 or T3, N1) involving the superior sulcus

    • No Pancoast's tumors
  • Negative mediastinoscopy required in all patients with clinically positive mediastinal or hilar lymph nodes to ensure no N2 disease

  • Bidimensionally measurable or evaluable disease by chest x-ray or contrast-enhanced CT scan

    • T3, N0 disease assessable only by bronchoscopy must be affirmed by 2 observers and documented by photograph that includes main carina

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Performance status:

  • Zubrod 0 or 1

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
  • WBC at least 4,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • SGOT or SGPT no greater than 2 times ULN
  • Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2 times ULN

Renal:

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

Pulmonary:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Preresection FEV_1 greater than 2.0 L OR
  • Predicted postresection FEV_1 greater than 1.0 L
  • No postobstructive pneumonia

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No serious infection
  • No other serious medical condition that would preclude study compliance
  • No prior allergic reactions to drugs containing Cremophor
  • No prior malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • No prior systemic chemotherapy for NSCLC
  • No other concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • No prior systemic radiotherapy for NSCLC
  • No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • At least 5 years since prior resection of lung disease

Other:

  • No other concurrent investigational therapy
  • No other concurrent anticancer therapy
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004011

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Sponsors and Collaborators
Southwest Oncology Group
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
North Central Cancer Treatment Group
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
Investigators
Study Chair: Paul A. Bunn, MD University of Colorado, Denver
Study Chair: Joseph A. Treat, MD Fox Chase Cancer Center
Study Chair: Randolph S. Marks, MD Mayo Clinic
Study Chair: Corey J. Langer, MD Fox Chase Cancer Center
  More Information

Additional Information:
Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications:
Pisters K, Vallieres E, Bunn PA, et al.: S9900: surgery alone or surgery plus induction (ind) paclitaxel/carboplatin (PC) chemotherapy in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): follow-up on a phase III trial. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 25 (Suppl 18): A-7520, 389s, 2007.
Pisters K, Vallieres E, Bunn P, et al.: S9900: a phase III trial of surgery alone or surgery plus preoperative (preop) paclitaxel/carboplatin (PC) chemotherapy in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): preliminary results. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 23 (Suppl 16): A-LBA7012, 624s, 2005.

Responsible Party: Southwest Oncology Group
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004011     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: CDR0000067223, S9900, S9900, S9900, RTOG-L0015, U10CA032102
Study First Received: November 1, 1999
Last Updated: January 30, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by Southwest Oncology Group:
stage I non-small cell lung cancer
stage II non-small cell lung cancer
stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
 Carboplatin
Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic

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