Fluorouracil With or Without Mitomycin in Treating Patients With Peritoneal Cancer

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• 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 may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of fluorouracil with or without mitomycin in treating patients who have peritoneal cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
• Treatments: Calcium; Fluorouracil; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Mitomycin; Mitomycins

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven peritoneal cancer that is amenable to total resection Originated as colorectal adenocarcinoma or cancer of the appendix No diffuse (unresectable) tumors No microscopic cancer only No hepatic, lymph node, or extraabdominal metastases on the preoperative work-up No primitive peritoneal mesothelioma No peritoneal pseudomyxomas or ascites No cancer that originates as ovarian or neuroendocrine cancer, especially sarcomas (intra- or retroperitoneal) Complete resection of tumor deposit No originating cancer of unknown origin

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC greater than 1,500/mm3 Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3 No chronic hematologic disorder No coagulation disorder Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Creatinine less than 1.36 mg/dL Other: No significant medical condition that would preclude study

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: See Disease Characteristics