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Arsenic Trioxide in Treating Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
This study has been completed.
First Received: November 1, 1999   Last Updated: July 23, 2008   History of Changes
Sponsors and Collaborators: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003630
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide in treating patients who have advanced solid tumors.


Condition Intervention Phase
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Drug: arsenic trioxide
Phase I

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment
Official Title: Phase I Study of Arsenic Trioxide

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

Study Start Date: August 1998
Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of arsenic trioxide in adult and pediatric patients with advanced solid tumors. II. Determine the pattern of clinical adverse experience of arsenic trioxide in this patient population. III. Evaluate evidence of clinical responsiveness to this treatment regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a dose escalation, open label study. Patients are stratified by age (pediatric vs adult).

Patients receive arsenic trioxide IV over 1-2 hours once daily for 3 consecutive days then once weekly for 5 weeks. Patients with stable or responding disease receive additional courses of therapy every 8 weeks for up to 1 year in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive escalating doses of arsenic trioxide until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 or more patients out of 6 experience dose limiting toxicity. Patients are followed for at least 1 month after treatment.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 48 patients will be accrued for this study.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed advanced solid tumor Relapsed from or resistant to at least 1 course of standard anticancer therapy AND/OR Lack of standard therapy that is known to be beneficial in the underlying disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance status: ECOG 0-3 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.5 times ULN Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for at least 4 months following study No active serious infections that are not controlled by antibiotics

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: See Disease Characteristics Chemotherapy: See Disease

Characteristics No other concurrent chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: See Disease Characteristics Radiotherapy:

See Disease Characteristics No concurrent radiotherapy Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No other concurrent investigational agents

  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003630

Locations
United States, New York
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States, 10021
Sponsors and Collaborators
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Investigators
Study Chair: Steven Soignet, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  More Information

Additional Information:
No publications provided

Study ID Numbers: CDR0000066713, MSKCC-98046, NCI-G98-1479
Study First Received: November 1, 1999
Last Updated: July 23, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003630     History of Changes
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific
unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Arsenic trioxide

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Arsenic trioxide
Pharmacologic Actions

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