Paclitaxel in Treating Women With Recurrent Solid Tumors

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2006-01-01
• 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.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of paclitaxel in treating women who have recurrent solid tumors.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel; Paclitaxel

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven recurrent adult solid tumors Must have measurable or evaluable disease No known bone marrow metastasis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Sex: Women Performance Status: Zubrod 0-2 Life Expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 1.5 mg/dL SGOT less than 2.0 times upper limit of normal Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal Other: Concurrently active secondary malignancies are allowed

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior paclitaxel therapy No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen for metastatic disease At least 4 weeks since chemotherapy Greater than 6 weeks since nitrosoureas, melphalan, or mitomycin Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: At least 4 weeks since radiotherapy No prior whole pelvic radiation Surgery: At least 4 weeks since major surgery