Fluorouracil in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Bladder Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-03-01
• 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.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of fluorouracil given as a continuous infusion in treating patients with recurrent or metastatic bladder cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Medical Research Council
• Treatments: Fluorouracil

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven recurrent locally advanced or metastatic transitional cell urinary tract carcinoma that has been previously untreated with systemic chemotherapy Pelvic relapse after radiotherapy or surgery No relapse solely within a previously irradiated field Nodal or metastatic disease Lesions within the abdomen or pelvis must be assessed using CT scanning At least one site of disease must be previously unirradiated and assessable for response Bone metastases cannot be used as an indicator lesion Measurable disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance Status: Not specified Life Expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Glomerular filtration rate at least 50 mL/min Creatinine clearance at least 25 mL/min

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior systemic chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics Surgery: See Disease Characteristics