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Chemotherapy, Filgrastim, and Stem Cell Transplantation With Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Breast Cancer
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
First Received: December 10, 1999   Last Updated: February 6, 2009   History of Changes
Sponsors and Collaborators: Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004172
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy. Combining chemotherapy with autologous peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of two regimens of chemotherapy and filgrastim plus stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have previously untreated stage III or stage IV breast cancer.


Condition Intervention Phase
Breast Cancer
Biological: filgrastim
Drug: carboplatin
Drug: cyclophosphamide
Drug: ifosfamide
Drug: thiotepa
Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Radiation: radiation therapy
Phase II

Genetics Home Reference related topics: breast cancer
MedlinePlus related topics: Breast Cancer Cancer Radiation Therapy
Drug Information available for: Cyclophosphamide Thiotepa Carboplatin Filgrastim Ifosfamide
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment
Official Title: Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation Protocol for Patients With Previously Treated Advanced Breast Cancer - A Phase II Pilot Study

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

Study Start Date: October 1999
Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the antitumor response, survival, and disease free survival following high dose carboplatin, ifosfamide, and thiotepa with autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) support and consolidation radiotherapy to sites of pretreatment bulk disease in patients with previously treated advanced breast cancer. II. Assess the toxicity of high dose chemotherapy in these patients. III. Compare the effectiveness of PBSC mobilization with high dose cyclophosphamide and filgrastim (G-CSF) vs G-CSF alone in this patient population.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) mobilization groups at the discretion of the attending physician: Group 1:

Patients receive high dose cyclophosphamide IV over 6 hours and filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SQ) daily beginning 24 hours after completion of cyclophosphamide and continuing until 3 days after blood counts have recovered and until PBSC are harvested. Group 2: Patients receive G-CSF SQ daily alone until PBSC are harvested. Both groups: PBSC are harvested on days 15-19 after cyclophosphamide infusion or when blood counts recover. Patients receive high dose carboplatin IV continuously, ifosfamide IV over 4 hours, and thiotepa IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -3. PBSC are reinfused beginning 48 hours after completion of combination chemotherapy. Patients receive G-CSF SQ beginning on day 0 and continuing until 3 days after blood counts have recovered. Sites of pretransplantation metastases greater than 3 cm are irradiated beginning after transplantation and after blood counts recover.

Patients are followed every month for 1 year.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 12-24 patients will be accrued for this study.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   up to 65 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven previously treated stage III or IV breast cancer No CNS disease Hormone receptor status: Not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Physiologic 65 and under Menopausal status: Not specified Performance status: ECOG 0 or 1 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Hepatic function normal unless due to liver metastases Bilirubin less than 1.5 times normal SGOT or SGPT less than 1.5 times normal Alkaline phosphatase less than 1.5 times normal If hepatitis C antibody positive, then liver function must be normal OR liver dysfunction must be due to metastatic disease and not chronic hepatitis Renal: Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL OR Creatinine clearance greater than 50 mL/min Cardiovascular: LVEF normal No myocardial infarction within past 6 months No significant arrhythmia requiring medications No history of congestive heart failure Pulmonary: DLCO at least 50% predicted FEV1 and/or FVC at least 75% predicted No serious nonneoplastic pulmonary disease (severe chronic obstructive lung disease) that would preclude study therapy Other: Not pregnant Negative pregnancy test HIV negative Hepatitis B and C surface antigen negative No active serious medical condition that would preclude study therapy

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: See Disease Characteristics

  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004172

Locations
United States, Illinois
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
Sponsors and Collaborators
Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
Investigators
Study Chair: Jane N. Winter, MD Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
  More Information

Additional Information:
No publications provided

Study ID Numbers: CDR0000067418, NU-92B3T, NCI-G99-1640
Study First Received: December 10, 1999
Last Updated: February 6, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004172     History of Changes
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage IV breast cancer
stage IIIA breast cancer
recurrent breast cancer
stage IIIB breast cancer

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Skin Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Breast Neoplasms
Cyclophosphamide
Carboplatin
Immunosuppressive Agents
Recurrence
Thiotepa
Ifosfamide
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Antirheumatic Agents
Alkylating Agents
Breast Diseases
Isophosphamide mustard

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Skin Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Antineoplastic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Breast Neoplasms
Cyclophosphamide
Carboplatin
Immunosuppressive Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Neoplasms
Ifosfamide
Neoplasms by Site
Therapeutic Uses
Myeloablative Agonists
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Antirheumatic Agents
Alkylating Agents
Breast Diseases

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