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Nitrocamptothecin in Treating Patients With Stage IV Prostate Cancer That Has Not Responded to Hormone Therapy

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00005820
First received: June 2, 2000
Last updated: July 23, 2008
Last verified: September 2006
History of Changes
  Purpose

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 nitrocamptothecin in treating men who have stage IV prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.


Condition Intervention Phase
Prostate Cancer
 Drug: rubitecan
 Phase 2

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Phase II Study of 9 Nitrocamptothecin for Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer

Resource links provided by NLM:

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Study Start Date: May 2000
Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the therapeutic efficacy of nitrocamptothecin in patients with metastatic, hormone refractory prostate cancer.
  • Determine time to disease progression and duration of response in this patient population as a result of this treatment regimen.
  • Determine the safety, tolerance, and toxicity of this treatment regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive nitrocamptothecin orally daily for 5 consecutive days each week for 3 consecutive weeks. Treatment continues every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 3 months until evidence of progression or relapse for a maximum of 2 years from the date of registration.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 22-46 patients will be accrued for this study over 2 years.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate with clinically progressive stage IVA or IVB disease after at least primary androgen ablation with either orchiectomy or LHRH agonist and only one cytotoxic chemotherapy regimen
  • Measurable disease with a maximum of 10 measurable lesions OR nonmeasurable disease
  • Serum testosterone no greater than 50 ng/mL if no prior bilateral orchiectomy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • Not specified

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0 or 1

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 (transfusion independent)
  • No disseminated intravascular coagulation

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST and ALT no greater than 3 times ULN

Renal:

  • Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN

Other:

  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No currently active second malignancy other than nonmelanoma skin cancers
  • No active infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy and recovered

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 6 weeks since prior suramin
  • At least 4 weeks since other prior chemotherapy
  • No prior therapy with camptothecin or any of its analogues

Endocrine therapy:

  • Prior second line hormonal therapy allowed
  • At least 4 weeks since prior hormonal therapy
  • Concurrent treatment with LHRH agonists allowed and required for
  • patients without orchiectomy
  • No concurrent hormonal therapy except for nondisease related conditions
  • Concurrent corticosteroids allowed if on stable dose for at least 6 weeks
  • before study
  • No concurrent dexamethasone as an antiemetic

Radiotherapy:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered
  • No palliative radiotherapy
  • At least 8 weeks since prior strontium 89 or samarium 153

Surgery:

  • At least 3 weeks since major surgery and recovered
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00005820

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Sponsors and Collaborators
Cancer and Leukemia Group B
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Investigators
Study Chair: Edward P. Gelmann, MD Lombardi Cancer Research Center
  More Information

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

Publications:

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00005820     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: CDR0000067827, CLB-99901, GUMC-00192
Study First Received: June 2, 2000
Last Updated: July 23, 2008
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
adenocarcinoma of the prostate
stage IV prostate cancer
recurrent prostate cancer

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Prostatic Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Male
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms
Genital Diseases, Male
Prostatic Diseases
 Hormones
9-nitrocamptothecin
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses

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