Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Ovarian Cancer or Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1998-10-01
• 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. Combining more than one drug and giving the drugs in different combinations may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II double-blinded trial to study the effectiveness of paclitaxel and carboplatin given with either amifostine or placebo in patients with metastatic stage III or stage IV ovarian cancer or metastatic stage III or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Treatments: Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel; Amifostine; Carboplatin; Paclitaxel

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven stage III/IV ovarian or non-small cell lung cancer

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance Status: ECOG 0-2 Life Expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 3.0 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2 mg/dL Other: Not pregnant or nursing No history of platinum, paclitaxel or amifostine hypersensitivity Prior myelosuppressive events allowed No clinically significant ascites

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy within 1 month of study Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No prior radiation therapy within 1 month of study Surgery: Not specified