Vinorelbine and/or Gemcitabine in Treating Older Patients With Stage IIIB or Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Vinorelbine Versus Gemcitabine Versus Gemcitabine and Vinorelbine in Elderly Patients With Stage IIIB-IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00003447
• Other study ID #: CDR0000066476
• Secondary ID: ITA-MILESITA-GOC
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: November 1, 1999
• Last updated: December 18, 2013
• Start date: July 1998

Study information

• Verified date: September 2007
• Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of vinorelbine, gemcitabine, or both in treating patients who have stage IIIB or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

Description:

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the activity and toxicities of gemcitabine in elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer. II. Determine the activity and toxicity of the combination of gemcitabine and vinorelbine in these patients. III. Compare the survival rate and quality of life of these patients treated with combination chemotherapy versus single agent chemotherapy. IV. Compare objective response and time to progression of these patients treated with these chemotherapy regimens. V. Compare the toxicities of these three regimens in these patients. VI. Compare the number of hospitalizations, palliative radiation therapies, antibiotic therapies, corticosteroid therapies, analgesic therapies, and hematopoietic growth factor therapies needed for these patients treated with these chemotherapy regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified by center, stage of disease (IIIB vs IV), and performance status (0 vs 1 vs 2). Patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms. Patients receive either vinorelbine IV, gemcitabine IV, or both on days 1 and 8 of each 21 day course. Patients who achieve an objective response or stable disease after 3 courses receive 3 more courses (for a total of 6 courses). Quality of life is assessed before treatment, after course 4 (or 3 weeks after course 3, if therapy is stopped), and at 21 days after course 6 (or 12 weeks after course 3).

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 630 patients (210 patients per arm) will be accrued for this study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 630
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 70 Years and older

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically or cytologically proven non-small cell lung cancer Stage IV OR Stage IIIB that has supraclavicular lymph node metastases or has pleural deposits and is not curable with surgery or radical radiotherapy No brain metastases suspected clinically or demonstrated radiologically

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 70 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy:

Not specified Hematopoietic: Neutrophil count at least 2000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL Hepatic: (Unless caused by tumor) Bilirubin no greater than 1.25 times upper limit of normal (ULN) SGOT or SGPT no greater than 1.25 times ULN Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Other: No other serious medical illness No prior or concurrent malignancy except curatively treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No prior chemotherapy

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Neoplasms

Intervention

Drug:
• gemcitabine hydrochloride

• vinorelbine tartrate

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori	Naples

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

References & Publications (2)

Gridelli C, Perrone F, Gallo C, Cigolari S, Rossi A, Piantedosi F, Barbera S, Ferraù F, Piazza E, Rosetti F, Clerici M, Bertetto O, Robbiati SF, Frontini L, Sacco C, Castiglione F, Favaretto A, Novello S, Migliorino MR, Gasparini G, Galetta D, Iaffaioli R — View Citation

Gridelli C, Perrone S, Cigolari L, et al.: The MILES (Multicenter Italian Lung Cancer in the Elderly Study) phase 3 trial: gemcitabine + vinorelbine vs vinorelbine and vs gemcitabine in elderly advanced NSCLC patients. [Abstract] Proceedings of the Americ