Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Osteosarcoma

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2000-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

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 or combining chemotherapy with surgery may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy and surgery in treating patients who have newly diagnosed metastatic osteosarcoma.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Calcium; Doxorubicin; Ifosfamide; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Liposomal doxorubicin; Methotrexate; Trimetrexate

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed, newly diagnosed (within one month of biopsy) malignant high grade osteosarcoma Must have pulmonary metastases (two or more nodules) and/or disease involving other bones or organs Must be an intent to resect at least one primary and/or metastatic site following preoperative chemotherapy Must have at least 1 evaluable site of disease No radiation induced sarcoma No osteosarcoma arising in premalignant bony lesions (e.g. Paget's disease)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 30 and under Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 3.0 times normal SGOT and/or SGPT less than 3.0 times normal Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times normal OR Creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR greater than 70 mL/min Cardiovascular: Shortening fraction greater than 28% by echocardiogram OR Ejection fraction greater than 50% by radionuclide angiogram No history of pericarditis or myocarditis

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No concurrent immunomodulating agents except steroids Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy No other concurrent chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No concurrent immunomodulating agents except steroids Radiotherapy: No prior or concurrent radiotherapy Surgery: Prior biopsy only of primary or metastatic area No prior resection Other: No prior therapy for any other malignancy No concurrent co-trimoxazole