Overview

Soblidotin in Treating Patients With Progressive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-05-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy such as soblidotin use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of soblidotin in treating patients who have progressive locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
Phase:
Phase 2
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Treatments:
Soblidotin
Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer

- Locally advanced or metastatic disease

- Demonstrates tumor progression

- Must have received 1 prior chemotherapy regimen

- Prior chemotherapy must have included a platinum agent

- Measurable disease

- At least 1 measurable lesion outside the field of any prior radiotherapy

- No symptomatic brain metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

- 18 and over

Performance status

- ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

- At least 12 weeks

Hematopoietic

- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3

- Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

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

- AST/ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN (5 times ULN if liver metastases are present)

Renal

- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN

Cardiac

- Ejection fraction at least 40% by MUGA

Other

- Not pregnant or nursing

- Negative pregnancy test

- Fertile patients must use effective contraception

- No psychiatric disorder that would preclude giving informed consent or following study
instruction

- No grade 2 or greater neurotoxicity

- No other prior malignancy except nonmelanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the
cervix unless in complete remission and off therapy for that disease for at least 5
years prior to study entry

- No other concurrent severe or uncontrolled underlying medical disease that would
compromise patient safety and study outcome

- No concurrent serious infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

- No concurrent anticancer biologic therapy

Chemotherapy

- See Disease Characteristics

- Recovered from prior chemotherapy

- No other concurrent anticancer chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

- Not specified

Radiotherapy

- See Disease Characteristics

- Recovered from prior radiotherapy

- No concurrent anticancer radiotherapy

- Concurrent localized radiotherapy to a non-indicator lesion for pain relief is
allowed provided other methods of pain control are ineffective

Surgery

- At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery and recovered

Other

- At least 4 weeks since prior myelosuppressive therapy

- More than 28 days since prior investigational drugs

- No other concurrent investigational drugs

- No other concurrent anticancer cytotoxic therapy