Overview

DX-8951f in Treating Children With Advanced Solid Tumors or Lymphomas

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2004-04-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of DX-8951f in treating children who have advanced solid tumors or lymphomas that have not responded to previous therapy.
Phase:
Phase 1
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Treatments:
Exatecan
Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Histologically confirmed advanced solid tumors, including brain tumors and lymphomas,
that have failed standard therapy (surgery, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, or
chemotherapy) or for which no standard therapy exists

- Histology requirement waived for brain stem gliomas

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

- 21 and under at diagnosis

Performance status:

- ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

- At least 8 weeks

Hematopoietic:

- Absolute neutrophil count at least 750/mm^3

- Platelet count at least 75,000/mm^3

- Hemoglobin at least 8.5 g/dL

Hepatic:

- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL

- SGOT or SGPT no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (5 times ULN if
liver metastases)

Renal:

- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN OR

- GFR at least 70 mL/min

Other:

- Not pregnant or nursing

- Negative pregnancy test

- No history of severe or life-threatening hypersensitivity to camptothecin analogs

- HIV negative

- No other concurrent severe or uncontrolled medical illness

- No systemic infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

- Recovered from prior immunotherapy

Chemotherapy:

- See Disease Characteristics

- Recovered from prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

- See Disease Characteristics

Radiotherapy:

- See Disease Characteristics

- At least 4 weeks since prior extensive radiotherapy involving cranial, whole pelvic,
or at least 25% of bone marrow reserve

- Recovered from prior radiotherapy

- Concurrent localized radiotherapy for pain allowed

Surgery:

- See Disease Characteristics

- Recovered from prior surgery

Other:

- No other concurrent antitumor therapy

- No concurrent drugs that induce or inhibit CYP3A enzyme