Status:
COMPLETED
GTI-2040 and Gemcitabine in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Unresectable Solid Tumors
Lead Sponsor:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE1
Brief Summary
This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of GTI-2040 and gemcitabine in treating patients with metastatic or unresectable solid tumors. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcita...
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: Primary I. Determine the toxicity profile and maximum tolerated dose of GTI-2040 and gemcitabine in patients with metastatic or unresectable solid tumors. Secondary I. Determine the pharm...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed solid tumor
- Metastatic or unresectable disease for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective
- Measurable or evaluable disease
- No known active or progressive brain metastases or primary brain tumors
- Performance status - ECOG 0-2
- Performance status - Karnofsky 60-100%
- More than 12 weeks
- Hemoglobin \> 9 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm\^3
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3
- Bilirubin ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST and ALT ≤ 3 times ULN (5 times ULN if hepatic metastases are present)
- Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min
- No symptomatic congestive heart failure
- No unstable angina pectoris
- No cardiac arrhythmia
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No prior allergic reaction attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to study drugs
- No ongoing or active infection
- No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
- No other condition (e.g., dementia or developmental delay) that would preclude giving informed consent
- No other concurrent uncontrolled illness that would preclude study participation
- Prior biologic therapy allowed
- No concurrent biologic therapy
- No concurrent immunotherapy
- No concurrent routine filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF)
- Prior gemcitabine allowed
- Prior investigational chemotherapy allowed
- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for mitomycin, carmustine, or nitrosoureas) and recovered
- No other concurrent chemotherapy
- Concurrent hormonal therapy (e.g., luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists) for prostate cancer is allowed
- At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered
- No prior radiotherapy to more than 25% of bone marrow
- No concurrent radiotherapy
- Recovered from prior surgery
- No other concurrent investigational therapy
- No other concurrent anticancer therapy
- No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients
- No concurrent long-term oral anticoagulation therapy (e.g., warfarin)
- Prophylactic warfarin to maintain central venous access patency allowed
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00078962
Start Date
January 1 2004
Last Update
January 24 2013
Active Locations (1)
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Cancer Therapy and Research Center at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229