Arsenic Trioxide in Treating Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2000-08-01
• 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 I trial to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide in treating patients who have advanced solid tumors.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Arsenic Trioxide

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed advanced solid tumor Relapsed from or resistant to at least 1 course of standard anticancer therapy AND/OR Lack of standard therapy that is known to be beneficial in the underlying disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance status: ECOG 0-3 Life expectancy:

Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.5 times ULN Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for at least 4 months following study No active serious infections that are not controlled by antibiotics

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: See Disease Characteristics Chemotherapy: See Disease Characteristics No other concurrent chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: See Disease Characteristics Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics No concurrent radiotherapy Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No other concurrent investigational agents