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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as pemetrexed disodium, gemcitabine, and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving pemetrexed disodium with gemcitabine is more effective than giving pemetrexed disodium with carboplatin in treating malignant pleural mesothelioma. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying pemetrexed disodium with gemcitabine and pemetrexed disodium with carboplatin to see how well the combinations work compared to historical controls in treating patients with advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma.


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OBJECTIVES: Primary - Estimate the response rates in patients with advanced malignant mesothelioma of the pleura treated with pemetrexed disodium combined with either gemcitabine or carboplatin. Secondary - Assess the toxic effects of these regimens in these patients. - Estimate survival time in patients treated with these regimens. - Correlate smoking status with outcome in patients treated with these regimens. OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. While randomized, the study is not a comparative study. Rather, outcomes on each arm will be compared to a historical control rate from previous studies. Randomization allows simultaneous testing of two experimental arms. - Arm I: Patients receive intravenous (IV) pemetrexed disodium over 10 minutes and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. - Arm II: Patients receive pemetrexed disodium as in arm I and gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 8. In both arms, treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Beginning approximately 5-10 days before the start of chemotherapy and continuing until approximately 3 weeks after completion of chemotherapy, all patients receive oral folic acid once daily and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) intramuscularly every 9 weeks. Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 1 year. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 32-60 patients (16-30 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 12.8-27.0 months. ;


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NCT number NCT00101283
Study type Interventional
Source Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
Start date February 23, 2006
Completion date May 2011

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