Status:

COMPLETED

ABI-007 in Treating Patients With Inoperable Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Melanoma

Lead Sponsor:

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Melanoma (Skin)

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ABI-007, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well ABI-007...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the antitumor activity of ABI-007 in patients with inoperable locally recurrent or metastatic melanoma. * Determine the safety and tolerability of this drug in these ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed melanoma
  • Inoperable locally recurrent or metastatic disease
  • Measurable disease
  • No lytic or blastic bone metastasis as only evidence of metastasis
  • Prior radiotherapy to a target lesion allowed provided there has been clear progression of disease since completion of radiotherapy
  • No active brain metastasis, including leptomeningeal involvement
  • Prior brain metastasis allowed provided the disease is in complete remission for at least 1 month after therapy
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Age
  • 18 and over
  • Performance status
  • ECOG 0-1
  • Life expectancy
  • More than 12 weeks
  • Hematopoietic
  • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm\^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
  • Hepatic
  • AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN (unless bone metastasis is present in the absence of liver metastasis)
  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • Renal
  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • Other
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception 1 month before and during study participation
  • No pre-existing peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2
  • No prior allergy or hypersensitivity to study drug
  • No concurrent clinically significant illness
  • No other concurrent active malignancy
  • No serious medical risk factors involving any of the major organ systems that would preclude study participation
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • Biologic therapy
  • Not specified
  • Chemotherapy
  • Recovered from prior chemotherapy
  • More than 4 weeks since prior cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • At least 3 weeks since prior anthracyclines
  • No concurrent taxane or anthracyclines
  • No concurrent doxorubicin
  • Endocrine therapy
  • No concurrent steroids except as needed for hypersensitivity to study drug
  • Radiotherapy
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Concurrent radiotherapy to a symptomatic non-target lesion (including recurrent or new brain metastases that develop during study participation) allowed
  • Surgery
  • Not specified
  • Other
  • More than 4 weeks since prior investigational drugs and recovered
  • No other concurrent anticancer therapy
  • No concurrent participation in another clinical study
  • No other concurrent investigational therapies
  • No concurrent ritonavir, saquinavir, indinavir, or nelfinavir

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    February 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    End Date :

    January 1 2010

    Estimated Enrollment :

    Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00081042

    Start Date

    February 1 2004

    End Date

    January 1 2010

    Last Update

    December 19 2013

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    Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA

    Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095-1781