Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Colon Cancer

Colorectal Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

5-Fluorouracil-Leucovorin With or Without Carboplatin as Adjuvant Treatment for Primary Dukes B2-C Colon Cancer; Chronomodulated Versus Standard Administration. A Multicenter Randomized Phase III Trial of the GRECCR-Belgium (Study 03).

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00046995
• Other study ID #: CDR0000257228
• Secondary ID: GRECCR-03EU-2020
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: October 3, 2002
• Last updated: September 19, 2013
• Start date: May 2001

Study information

• Verified date: November 2002
• 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. It is not yet known which schedule of chemotherapy is most effective in treating colon cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare different schedules of chemotherapy using carboplatin with fluorouracil and leucovorin in treating patients who have stage IIB or stage III colon cancer.

Description:

OBJECTIVES:

• Compare the disease-free survival of patients with completely resected stage IIB or III colon cancer treated with adjuvant chronomodulated vs standard schedule fluorouracil and leucovorin calcium with or without carboplatin.

• Compare the overall survival of patients treated with these regimens.

• Compare the toxicity of these regimens in these patients.

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

• Determine the dose intensities of fluorouracil and carboplatin in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to participating center and disease stage (IIB vs III). Patients are randomized to 1 of 4 treatment arms.

• Arm I (standard schedule): Patients receive fluorouracil (5-FU) IV continuously and leucovorin calcium (CF) IV on days 1 and 2.

• Arm II (standard + carboplatin schedule): Patients receive 5-FU and CF as in arm I plus carboplatin IV on day 1.

• Arm III (chronomodulated schedule): Patients receive 5-FU IV continuously and CF IV continuously on days 1-4.

• Arm IV (chronomodulated + carboplatin schedule): Patients receive 5-FU and CF as in arm III plus carboplatin IV continuously on days 1-4.

Quality of life is assessed.

Treatment in all arms repeats every 14 days for up to 9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 660-800 patients will be accrued for this study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the colon

• Stage IIB or III (Dukes stage B2 or C)

• Complete curative resection performed within the past 7 weeks (negative margins)

• No local or regional relapsed disease

• Tumor more than 15 cm above the anal margin

• Carcinoembryonic antigen less than 5 ng/mL (after surgery)

• No rectal cancer

• No metastatic disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• 18 and over

Performance status

• ECOG 0-1 OR

• Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy

• Not specified

Hematopoietic

• Neutrophil count at least 2,000/mm3

• Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3

Hepatic

• Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)

• SGOT and SGPT no greater than 5 times ULN

Renal

• Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN

Cardiovascular

• No serious coronary disease

Other

• Not pregnant

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No concurrent infectious disease

• No other malignancy except adequately treated basal cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• No prior immunotherapy

Chemotherapy

• No prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

• Not specified

Radiotherapy

• No prior radiotherapy (before or after surgery)

Surgery

• See Disease Characteristics

Other

• No concurrent participation in another clinical trial

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colorectal Cancer

Intervention

Drug:
• carboplatin

• fluorouracil

• leucovorin calcium

Procedure:
• adjuvant therapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Centre Hospitalier Hutois	Huy
Belgium	Clinique Saint-Joseph	Liege

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Groupe Regional d'Etudes du Cancer Colorectal

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Disease-free survival			No
Secondary	Tolerability			Yes
Secondary	Quality of life			No