Neoadjuvant Radiation Therapy and Capecitabine in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Colorectal Adenocarcinoma

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy before surgery may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well neoadjuvant radiation therapy and capecitabine work in treating patients who are undergoing surgery for stage III or stage IV colorectal adenocarcinoma.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: GERCOR - Multidisciplinary Oncology Cooperative Group; Groupe Cooperateur Multidisciplinaire en Oncologie (GERCOR)
• Treatments: Capecitabine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically or cytologically confirmed colorectal adenocarcinoma

• Clinical stage T3, T4, N+

• Measurable disease

• Awaiting surgery and likely to benefit from neoadjuvant radiotherapy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• 18 to 80

Performance status

• ECOG 0-2 OR

• Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy

• Not specified

Hematopoietic

• Absolute neutrophil count at least 2,000/mm^3

• Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

• Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL

Hepatic

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

• AST and ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN

• No hepatic condition that would interfere with study medication

Renal

• Creatinine clearance at least 80 mL/min

• No renal condition that would interfere with study medication

Cardiovascular

• No serious cardiac failure with the past year

• No myocardial infarction within the past year

• No cardiac insufficiency

• No angina

• No uncontrolled arrhythmia

• No uncontrolled hypertension

Gastrointestinal

• No superior intestinal tract malfunction

• No malabsorption syndrome

Other

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No concurrent serious infection

• No other serious illness

• No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively treated basal cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

• No metabolic condition that would interfere with study medication

• No dementia or altered mental status

• No psychiatric illness that would preclude study participation

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• Not specified

Chemotherapy

• No prior chemotherapy for colorectal cancer

Endocrine therapy

• Not specified

Radiotherapy

• No prior radiotherapy for colorectal cancer

Surgery

• Not specified

Other

• More than 30 days since prior participation in another clinical study