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

PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of procarbazine in treating patients who have progressive or recurrent astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, or glioblastoma multiforme following treatment with radiation therapy.


Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

- Determine the maximum tolerated dose of oral procarbazine when administered to patients with recurrent glioma receiving or not receiving anticonvulsants metabolized by the P450 hepatic enzyme complex.

- Determine the pharmacokinetics of oral procarbazine, including any effects of hepatic enzyme inducing drugs, in these patients.

- Assess the response rate to procarbazine in these patients.

- Evaluate this regimen in terms of overall survival and duration of disease free survival in these patients.

- Evaluate the toxicity of this regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: Phase I of this study is a dose escalation study. Patients are stratified according to concurrent use of anticonvulsant drugs that induce cytochrome P450 (yes vs no drugs or modest-induction drugs).

- Phase I: Patients receive oral procarbazine once daily for 5 days. Treatment repeats every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Cohorts of 6 patients receive escalating doses of oral procarbazine until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined.

- Phase II: Once the MTD is determined, patients receive procarbazine as in Phase I.

Patients are followed every 2 months until death.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 24-35 patients will be accrued for this study. ;


Study Design

Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT00004004
Study type Interventional
Source National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date July 1999
Completion date August 2003

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