Gemcitabine and Irinotecan in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced Unresectable or Metastatic Kidney Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2009-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine and irinotecan, work in 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: This phase II trial is studying how well giving gemcitabine together with irinotecan works in treating patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic kidney cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina
• Treatments: Camptothecin; Gemcitabine; Irinotecan

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed renal cell carcinoma

• Locally advanced unresectable or metastatic disease

• Unidimensionally measurable disease by physical exam or imaging study

• The following are not considered measurable disease:

• Bone only disease

• Pleural or peritoneal effusions

• CNS lesions

• Irradiated lesions unless disease progression was documented after radiotherapy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• Over 18

Performance status

• ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

• Not specified

Hematopoietic

• Granulocyte count ≥ 1,500/mm^3

• Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

• ALT and AST < 3 times upper limit of normal

• Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL

Renal

• Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL

Gastrointestinal

• No active inflammatory bowel disease

• No significant bowel obstruction

• No chronic diarrhea

Other

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after study participation

• No mental incapacitation or psychiatric illness that would preclude giving informed consent

• No other active malignancy except nonmelanoma skin cancer

• No other severe disease that would preclude study participation

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• At least 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy

• No concurrent prophylactic filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF)

Chemotherapy

• No prior chemotherapy

• No other concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

• No concurrent hormones except steroids for adrenal failure, hormones for non-disease-related conditions (e.g., insulin for diabetes), or intermittent dexamethasone as an antiemetic

Radiotherapy

• See Disease Characteristics

• At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy

• No concurrent palliative radiotherapy

Surgery

• Not specified

Other

• No concurrent participation in another clinical trial