Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Kidney Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2002-04-01
• 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 chemotherapy drug may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining doxorubicin and ifosfamide in treating patients who have metastatic kidney cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UNICANCER
• Treatments: Doxorubicin; Ifosfamide; Isophosphamide mustard; Liposomal doxorubicin

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven metastatic, sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma Measurable disease At least 15 mm for pulmonary sites At least 20 mm for other sites No uncontrolled CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: WHO 0-2 Life expectancy:

Greater than 3 months Hematopoietic: Neutrophil count greater than 1500/mm3 Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3 Hemoglobin greater than 9 g/dL Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 1.5 times normal Transaminases less than 2 times normal (less than 4 times normal if due to liver metastases) Renal: Creatinine less than 1.6 mg/dL Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min Other: No contraindication to anthracycline treatment No unstable major organ defect No prior malignancy except basal cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the uterus Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior immunotherapy Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Not specified Surgery: Not specified