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RATIONALE: Active symptom control may decrease chest pain, breathlessness, sweating, and general discomfort in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. It is not yet known if active symptom control is more effective with or without chemotherapy.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying active symptom control and chemotherapy to see how well they work compared to active symptom control alone in treating patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.


Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

- Compare the overall survival of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with active symptom control (ASC) alone vs ASC and mitomycin, vinblastine, and cisplatin vs ASC and vinorelbine.

Secondary

- Compare the toxic effects of these regimens in these patients.

- Compare symptom palliation (chest pain, breathlessness, malaise, and sweating attacks) in patients treated with these regimens.

- Compare the performance status of patients treated with these regimens.

- Compare analgesic usage in patients treated with these regimens.

- Compare the tumor response and progression-free survival of patients treated with these regimens.

- Compare the quality of life of patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms.

- Arm I: Patients receive active symptom control (ASC) through regular visits at a specialist clinic. ASC may include steroids, analgesics, appetite stimulants, bronchodilators, and/or palliative radiotherapy, when required.

- Arm II: Patients receive ASC and chemotherapy comprising mitomycin IV, vincristine IV, and cisplatin IV on day 1. Chemotherapy repeats every 21 days for a total of 4 courses.

- Arm III: Patients receive ASC and vinorelbine IV over 5 minutes weekly for 6 weeks. Vinorelbine repeats every 55 days for a total of 2 courses.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline, every 3 weeks for 21 weeks, and then every 8 weeks thereafter.

Patients are followed at 15, 18, and 21 weeks, and then every 8 weeks thereafter.

Peer Reviewed and Funded or Endorsed by Cancer Research UK

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 840 patients (280 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 4 years. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT00075699
Study type Interventional
Source National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
Start date September 2003

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