Danazol in Treating Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

RATIONALE: Hormone therapy may be an effective treatment for endometrial cancer.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of danazol in treating patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gynecologic Oncology Group
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Danazol

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer that is not amenable to curative surgery or radiotherapy Measurable disease Tumor at least 1.0 cm by 1.0 cm per x-ray or physical exam OR Tumor at least 2.0 cm by 2.0 cm per CT scan, MRI, or ultrasound

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance status: GOG 0-2 Life expectancy:

Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3000/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 No history of porphyria Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times normal SGOT no greater than 3 times normal Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 3 times normal Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2 mg/dL Other: No concurrent or prior malignancy within past 5 years (except nonmelanoma skin cancer) or for which patient received chemotherapy Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception Must have tissue available for estrogen receptor/ progesterone receptor analysis

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: At least 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered Surgery: At least 3 weeks since prior surgery and recovered