Status:
COMPLETED
Epirubicin, Docetaxel, and Capecitabine in Treating Women With Stage IIIA or Stage IIIB Breast Cancer
Lead Sponsor:
Mayo Clinic
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Breast Cancer
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as epirubicin, docetaxel, and capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from d...
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: Primary * Describe the pathologic response rate in chemotherapy-naive women with locally advanced breast cancer (stage IIIA or IIIB) after 6 courses of sequential neoadjuvant therapy wit...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed breast cancer
- Stage IIIA or IIIB disease (T3 N1 M0, T4 N1 M0, any T N2/N3 M0)
- Bidimensionally measurable or evaluable disease
- Hormone receptor status not specified
- PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Menopausal status not specified
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000 cells/μL
- Total bilirubin normal
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
- ANC ≥ 1,000 cells/μL
- AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min and serum creatinine normal
- Life expectancy ≥ 3 months
- No uncontrolled infection
- No chronic debilitating disease
- No lack of physical integrity of the upper gastrointestinal tract
- Able to swallow tablets
- No malabsorption syndrome
- No clinically significant cardiac disease not well controlled with medication (e.g., congestive heart failure, symptomatic coronary artery disease and cardiac arrhythmias \[New York Heart Association class III-IV heart disease\] or myocardial infarction within the last 12 months)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or adequately treated other noninvasive carcinomas
- No peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 1
- PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- More than 4 weeks since prior major surgery and recovered
- No prior chemotherapy regimens including adjuvant therapy
- No organ allograft
- No concurrent sorivudine or bruvidine
- No other concurrent cytostatic, cytotoxic, immunomodulating agents, or radiotherapy
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2003
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
March 1 2006
Estimated Enrollment :
47 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00645866
Start Date
April 1 2003
End Date
March 1 2006
Last Update
May 16 2011
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