High-Dose Combination Chemotherapy and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Breast Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2002-01-01
• 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. Combining peripheral stem cell transplantation with chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of high-dose combination chemotherapy and peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborators: Bristol-Myers Squibb; National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel; Cyclophosphamide; Doxorubicin; Liposomal doxorubicin; Paclitaxel

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed breast cancer that is metastatic or recurrent Poor-prognosis status required for Phase I portion of the study, i.e.: Estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor-negative tumor OR Failed hormonal therapy and with bulky disease or liver metastasis Bone marrow involvement less than 15% No active CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 15 to 60 Sex: Not specified Performance status: Zubrod 0 or 1 Hematopoietic: WBC greater than 3,500/mm3 Absolute granulocyte count greater than 2,000/mm3 Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Liver function tests less than twice normal Renal: Creatinine clearance (calculated) at least 60 mL/min Cardiovascular: Left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 50% No symptomatic cardiac disease requiring antiarrhythmic or inotropic therapy Pulmonary: DLCO greater than 50% of predicted Other: No pre-existing peripheral neuropathy greater than grade 1 No severe concomitant medical or psychiatric disease

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: More than 3 weeks since any immunotherapy Chemotherapy: No prior doxorubicin or paclitaxel Patients with up to 150 mg per square meter doxorubicin or up to 4 courses of paclitaxel and who have responding disease are eligible for dose-intensive portion of protocol therapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: More than 3 weeks since any radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified