Safety Trial of IRESSA, Cisplatin and Radiation Therapy for Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2006-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out whether adding ZD1839 to standard treatment (Cisplatin and Radiation Therapy) of unresectable head and neck cancers is better than cisplatin and radiation alone.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Treatments: Cisplatin; Gefitinib

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, or hypopharynx. For the Phase II portion of the study: measurable disease as based on RECIST criteria.

• Stage III or IV disease, M0.

• Life expectancy > 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known severe hypersensitivity to ZD1839 or any of the excipients of this product.

• Other co-existing malignancies or malignancies diagnosed within the last 5 years, with the exception of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or cervical cancer in situ.

• Previous treatment with radiation, chemotherapy, or definitive surgical therapy.

• Distant metastatic disease.

• Documented evidence of HIV infection (because the interaction of ZD1839 with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy [HAART] is unknown).

• Substance abuse or psychiatric problems that would interfere with compliance.

• Pregnancy or breast-feeding (women of child-bearing potential).

• Treatment with a non-approved or investigational drug within 30 days before Day 1 of study treatment.

• Any evidence of clinically active interstitial lung disease (patients with chronic stable radiographic changes who are asymptomatic need not be excluded)