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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Schering-Plough |
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Information provided by: | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00588341 |
In this study, we want to find out how likely it is for temozolomide to shrink melanoma tumors that have spread only to areas that could be removed by surgery. We also want to study the melanoma before and after temozolomide treatment to learn why some tumors respond and others do not. This is a Phase II trial. This means that it will test a drug - in this case, temozolomide -- that has already been studied and shown to be safe.
Surgery, when possible, is the main treatment for patients with melanoma like yours. In most people, however, melanoma cells have already spread to other places in the body. This means that even with surgery, many people will have the melanoma come back. This is often fatal.
One goal of this trial is to treat the melanoma cells that might have spread before they have a chance to grow.
As part of this trial, we also study which genes are turned on and which genes are turned off in your tumor. We will obtain tumor from the biopsy done before you started temozolomide treatment and from the tumor removed during the surgery done after you finish temozolomide treatment. This may help us understand how temozolomide works and how to recognize which tumors will respond.
Before and during the temozolomide treatment, we will also test a new way of measuring the amount of tumor present. This involves a special way of analyzing the CT scan which you will have anyway. This new technique may allow us to see tumor shrinkage very early in the treatment course.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Melanoma Skin Cancer Cancer |
Drug: Temozolomide |
Phase II |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Open Label, Single Group Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Temozolomide in Melanoma Patients With Palpable Stage III or IV Disease Undergoing Complete Surgical Resection |
Estimated Enrollment: | 37 |
Study Start Date: | September 2005 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | September 2009 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | September 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Treatment: Experimental |
Drug: Temozolomide
At the start of the trial a core needle biopsy of a palpable tumor will be obtained percutaneously in the office after administration of local anesthesia. Patients will then be treated with TMZ according to the extended dosing schedule of 75mg/m2/day x 6 weeks every 8 weeks. After each cycle, patients will be re-evaluated for response. Responding patients will be offered another cycle of treatment. Patients will be treated until best response, progression of disease, or 6 cycles, whichever comes first. After completing temozolomide treatment, patients will be evaluated for surgical resection. It is expected that, unless there is progression of disease, patients will undergo resection (i.e. therapeutic lymph node dissection). In patients who have a complete clinical response to temozolomide, whether or not to do a subsequent lymph node dissection will be left up to the discretion of the surgeon and the patient. |
In this Phase II trial, chemotherapy-naïve patients with palpable Stage III or Stage IV M1a melanoma scheduled to undergo surgical resection will be treated with TMZ in 8 week cycles according to the extended dosing schedule of 75mg/m2/day x 6 weeks with 2 weeks off. Patients will be treated until maximal response to TMZ and then undergo resection of residual disease. The primary endpoint will be tumor response as measured by the RECIST criteria. Patients will be seen monthly.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, New York | |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | |
New York, New York, United States, 10065 |
Principal Investigator: | Paul Chapman, MD | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Responsible Party: | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( Paul Chapman, MD ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 05-076 |
Study First Received: | December 26, 2007 |
Last Updated: | July 3, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00588341 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Melanoma Skin Cancer Cancer Temozolamide TMZ |
Neuroectodermal Tumors Skin Diseases Nevus, Pigmented Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neuroepithelioma |
Nevus Skin Neoplasms Temozolomide Neuroendocrine Tumors Melanoma |
Neoplasms Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms by Site Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Antineoplastic Agents Therapeutic Uses |
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Nevi and Melanomas Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating Alkylating Agents Pharmacologic Actions |