Title

Cisplatin, Etoposide, and Cyclophosphamide in Treating Patients With Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
Pilot Study of a Combination of Standard Etoposide/Cisplatin and Metronomic Cyclophosphamide in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Phase

    Phase 2
  • Study Type

    Interventional
  • Status

    Completed No Results Posted
  • Study Participants

    8
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, etoposide, and cyclophosphamide, work in 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: This phase II trial is studying how well giving cisplatin, etoposide, and cyclophosphamide together works in treating patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

Determine the safety of cisplatin, etoposide, and cyclophosphamide in patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer.
Determine the effect of this regimen on circulating endothelial cells in the peripheral blood of these patients.

Secondary

Determine progression-free survival, tumor response rate, and overall survival in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Induction therapy: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 30 minutes-2 hours on day 1, etoposide IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-3 OR etoposide IV on day 1 and orally twice daily on days 2-3, and oral cyclophosphamide twice daily on days 8-19. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Maintenance therapy: Patients receive oral cyclophosphamide twice daily in the absence of disease progression.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 10 patients will be accrued for this study.
Study Started
Jun 30
2003
Primary Completion
May 31
2010
Study Completion
May 31
2010
Last Update
Sep 05
2012
Estimate

Drug cisplatin

60 mg/m2 IV day 1, every 21 days for 4 cycles.

Drug cyclophosphamide

25 mg by mouth BID days 8-19 or each cycle x 4 cycles. After restaging (if no progression) maintenance cyclophosphamide alone 25 mg by mouth BID daily until disease progression

  • Other names: Cytoxan

Drug etoposide

120 mg/m2 IV days 1-3 OR 120 mg/m2 IV day 1 and 120 mg/m2 by mouth BID days 2-3

  • Other names: VP-16

Oral cyclophosphamide plus standard cisplatin with etoposide Experimental

Etoposide 120 mg/m2 IV Days 1-3 or Etoposide 120 mg/ m2 IV Day1 followed by Etoposide 120 mg/ m2 PO BID Days 2-3 Cisplatin 60 mg/m2 IV Day 1 Every 21 days x 4 cycles Cyclophosphamide 25 mg PO BID Days 8-19 of each cycle

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

Histologically or cytologically confirmed small cell lung cancer

Extensive stage disease (i.e., disease beyond the hemithorax and cannot be encompassed safely by a tolerable radiation field)
Measurable disease

Concurrent CNS metastases allowed provided patient remains asymptomatic

Radiotherapy or surgery for uncontrolled symptoms allowed before study entry

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

18 and over

Performance status

ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

Not specified

Hematopoietic

Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL (transfusion allowed)

Hepatic

ALT ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
Bilirubin ≤ 2 times ULN

Renal

Creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL OR
Creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min

Other

Not pregnant or nursing
Negative pregnancy test
Fertile patients must use effective contraception
No other malignancy within the past year except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

No prior biologic therapy

Chemotherapy

No prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

Concurrent corticosteroids for brain metastases allowed

Radiotherapy

See Disease Characteristics
Prior radiotherapy to any symptomatic site allowed provided the target site(s) was not previously irradiated
No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery

See Disease Characteristics
No Results Posted