Gefitinib After Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Stage IIIB or Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Gefitinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. It is not yet known whether giving gefitinib after initial chemotherapy is effective in delaying the recurrence of non-small cell lung cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying gefitinib to see how well it works compared to placebo in delaying tumor recurrence in patients who have undergone initial chemotherapy for stage IIIB or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
• Treatments: Gefitinib

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically or cytologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer meeting 1 of the following stage criteria:

• Stage IIIB

• Pleural fluid and/or supraclavicular nodes allowed provided patient is not eligible for consolidation radiotherapy

• Stage IV disease

• No disease progression after 2-6 courses of prior platinum-containing first-line palliative induction chemotherapy

• Brain metastases allowed provided patients are asymptomatic after cranial irradiation completed at least 4 weeks ago

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• 18 and over

Performance status

• WHO 0-2

Life expectancy

• Not specified

Hematopoietic

• Not specified

Hepatic

• Not specified

Renal

• Not specified

Pulmonary

• No history, signs, or symptoms of clinically active interstitial lung disease

• Patients with chronic, stable, asymptomatic radiographic changes are eligible

Other

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical condition that would preclude study compliance and follow-up

• No other malignant disease within the past 5 years except basal cell skin cancer or adequately treated superficial carcinoma of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• No concurrent immunotherapy

Chemotherapy

• See Disease Characteristics

• Recovered from prior chemotherapy (alopecia allowed)

• No concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

• Not specified

Radiotherapy

• See Disease Characteristics

Surgery

• Not specified

Other

• No prior epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors

• No concurrent administration of any of the following drugs:

• Phenytoin

• Carbamazepine

• Rifampin

• Phenobarbital

• Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort)

• No other concurrent anticancer therapy

• No other concurrent experimental drugs