Liposome-encapsulated Irinotecan Hydrochloride PEP02 or Irinotecan Hydrochloride, Leucovorin Calcium, and Fluorouracil as Second-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2014-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as liposome-encapsulated irinotecan hydrochloride PEP02, irinotecan hydrochloride, leucovorin calcium, and fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known whether giving liposome-encapsulated irinotecan hydrochloride PEP02 together with leucovorin calcium and fluorouracil is more effective than giving irinotecan hydrochloride together with leucovorin calcium and fluorouracil as second-line therapy in treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying liposome-encapsulated irinotecan hydrochloride PEP02 given together with leucovorin calcium and fluorouracil to see how well it works compared with giving irinotecan hydrochloride together with leucovorin calcium and fluorouracil as second-line therapy in treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: GERCOR - Multidisciplinary Oncology Cooperative Group; Groupe Cooperateur Multidisciplinaire en Oncologie (GERCOR)
• Treatments: Bevacizumab; Calcium; Calcium, Dietary; Camptothecin; Fluorouracil; Irinotecan; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS

• Histologically proven adenocarcinoma of colon or rectum

• Metastatic disease, exclusive of bone metastasis

• Not suitable for complete carcinological surgical resection

• Patients regardless KRAS status (wild type or mutated) or previous anti EGFR treatment or not.

• Measurable lesion (greater than 1 cm) as assessed by CT scan or MRI according to RECIST criteria (version 1.1)

• Must have received prior oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy for metastatic disease

• No symptomatic ascites or pleural effusion not evacuated prior to study entry

• No history or evidence of CNS metastasis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• WHO or ECOG performance status 0-2

• Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1500 per mm3

• Platelet count greater than 100 000 per microL

• Hemoglobin greater than 9 g per dL (may be transfused to maintain or exceed this level)

• INR less or equal than 1.5. aPTT less than 1.5 ULN (exemption:patients on full anticoagulation due to VTE must have an in-range INR.

• Serum creatinine less than 150 micromol per L

• Calculated creatinine clearance greater than 30 mL per min

• Total bilirubin less than 1.5 times upper limit of normal

• Proteinuria less than 2 plus (dipstick urinalysis) or less than 1 g per 24 hours.

• Negative serum pregnancy test

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No severe arterial thromboembolic events within the past 6 months, including myocardial infarction and stroke

• No baseline diarrhea greater than grade 1

• No total or partial bowel obstruction

• No uncontrolled hypercalcemia

• No uncontrolled hypertension, or history of hypertensive crisis, or hypertensive encephalopathy

• No other prior or concurrent malignancy, except adequately treated in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix, basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or cancer in complete remission for more than 5 years

• No other serious and uncontrolled non-malignant disease

• Major surgery or traumatic injury within the last 28 days.

• No known allergy to any excipients of study drugs

• Must be registered in a national health care system (CMU included)

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics

• Prior anti-EGFR therapy allowed

• No prior irinotecan hydrochloride

• No concurrent agents known to have anticancer activity

• No concurrent radiotherapy

• No participation in another clinical trial with any investigational drug or treatments concurrently or within the past 30 days