Combination Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2008-04-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as docetaxel, cisplatin, and fluorouracil, work
in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by
stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells.
Giving combination chemotherapy together with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving combination chemotherapy together
with radiation therapy works in treating patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer.
The doctor also wants to find out if patients who receive this treatment need a feeding tube
1 year after starting treatment.