Combination Chemotherapy Plus Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Mouth Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-07-01
• 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. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy plus radiation therapy in treating patients who have advanced mouth cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Eniluracil; Fluorouracil; Hydroxyurea

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced malignant oral or laryngeal neoplasm requiring regional radiotherapy and not amenable to standard therapy Tumor site amenable to radiotherapy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy:

Expected 2 year survival less than 10% in previously untreated patients Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Creatinine clearance at least 50 mL/min Other: No severe infection or medical illness that would preclude study Must be able to swallow and retain oral medications Not pregnant

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: Recovered from prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Recovered from prior radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified