Combination Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery in Treating Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preoperative Chemotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients With Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastases (Stage IIIA, N2)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00003231
• Other study ID #: SAKK 16/96
• Secondary ID: SWS-SAKK-16/96EU
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: April 1997
• Est. completion date: September 2000

Study information

• Verified date: May 2019
• Source: Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• 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 with surgery may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with docetaxel and cisplatin followed by surgery in treating patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.

Description:

OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the efficacy and toxic effects of docetaxel plus cisplatin in patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer. II. Assess the clinical and pathological response rate to this therapy in this patient population. III. Compare the benefit of surgery in terms of overall survival of responding and nonresponding patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive infusions of docetaxel over 1 hour on day 1, followed by infusions of cisplatin over 1 hour on days 1-2. Treatment is repeated for three 21 day courses. Patients undergo tumor resection and mediastinal lymph node dissection. Patients are to receive postoperative radiotherapy within 4 weeks of resection if the tumor reaches the resection margins and/or the first mediastinal lymph node levels are involved. Patients will be followed until death.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 5-40 patients will be accrued within 3 years.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: September 2000
• Est. primary completion date: September 2000
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(including squamous, adenocarcinoma, large cell, and poorly differentiated NSCLC) Nodal metastases of T1-3 N2 M0 No distant metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 to 75 Performance Status: WHO 0-2 Life Expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Leucocytes greater than 4,000/mm3 Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin within normal limits AST or ALT no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2.5 times ULN Renal: Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min No hypercalcemia Cardiovascular: No unstable cardiac disease No congestive heart failure No angina pectoris No significant arrhythmias No prior history of myocardial infarction within 3 months Pulmonary: Lung function test with a forced expiratory volume greater than 1.2 L/sec Neurologic: No dementia No peripheral neuropathy greater than grade 1 No psychosis No seizure disorders Other: No prior or concurrent malignancies, except: Nonmelanoma skin cancer Carcinoma in situ of the cervix No active uncontrolled infection or other serious medical conditions No diabetes mellitus treated with insulin No gastric ulcers

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior biologic therapy Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No prior corticosteroids or other endocrine therapy No concurrent treatment with prednisone (except for prophylaxis, treatment of acute hypersensitivity, or chronic treatment initiated greater than 6 months prior to study entry) Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: No prior surgery for malignancy Other: No concurrent treatment with other experimental drugs No involvement in clinical trials within 30 days of study No prior treatment with other cytostatic therapy

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

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

Intervention

Drug:
• cisplatin

• docetaxel

Procedure:
• surgical procedure

Radiation:
• radiation therapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Kantonspital Aarau	Aarau
Switzerland	Office of Walter Weber-Stadelman	Basel
Switzerland	University Hospital	Basel
Switzerland	Inselspital, Bern	Bern
Switzerland	Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Geneva	Geneva
Switzerland	Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana	Lugano
Switzerland	Burgerspital, Solothurn	Solothurn
Switzerland	City Hospital Triemli	Zurich
Switzerland	Klinik Hirslanden	Zurich

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

References & Publications (4)

Betticher D, Hsu Schmitz S, Roth A, et al.: Neoadjuvant therapy with docetaxel and cisplatin in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), stage IIIA, pN2: a large phase II study with 59 months of follow-up. [Abstract] Lung Cancer 50 (Suppl 2): A-O

Betticher DC, Hsu Schmitz SF, Tötsch M, Hansen E, Joss C, von Briel C, Schmid RA, Pless M, Habicht J, Roth AD, Spiliopoulos A, Stahel R, Weder W, Stupp R, Egli F, Furrer M, Honegger H, Wernli M, Cerny T, Ris HB. Mediastinal lymph node clearance after doce — View Citation

Betticher DC, Hsu Schmitz SF, Tötsch M, Hansen E, Joss C, von Briel C, Schmid RA, Pless M, Habicht J, Roth AD, Spiliopoulos A, Stahel R, Weder W, Stupp R, Egli F, Furrer M, Honegger H, Wernli M, Cerny T, Ris HB; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (S — View Citation

Früh M, Betticher DC, Stupp R, Xyrafas A, Peters S, Ris HB, Mirimanoff RO, Ochsenbein AF, Schmid R, Matzinger O, Stahel RA, Weder W, Guckenberger M, Rothschild SI, Lardinois D, Mach N, Mark M, Gautschi O, Thierstein S, Biaggi Rudolf C, Pless M; Swiss Grou — View Citation