Overview

Pharmacokinetic Study of Porfiromycin in Head and Neck Cancer and Other Cancer Patients With Solid Tumors

Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
Study to determine the steady-state pharmacokinetics and urinary excretion of porfiromycin and major metabolites in head and neck cancer and other cancer patients with solid tumors who receive radiation therapy.
Phase:
Phase 1
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Treatments:
Porfiromycin
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with histologically proven advanced head and neck cancer or other solid
tumors undergoing radiation therapy

- Patients with prior chemotherapy will be considered if chemotherapy occurred more than
30 days prior to this study

- Patients must be receiving concomitant radiotherapy (RT)

- Performance status of ≥ 70% on the Karnofsky performance scale (KPS)

- Must be ≥ 18 years of age

- Expected survival of at least three months

- Written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients who meet any of the following clinical laboratory criteria:

- Granulocyte count of < 2000/mm**3

- Platelets < 75,000/mm**3

- Serum creatinine > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal

- Bilirubin > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal

- Prothrombin time and partial thromboplastin time > 1.5 times the upper limit of
normal

- Women who are pregnant

- Men and women of child-bearing potential who are unwilling to utilize a medically
acceptable method of contraception

- Patients who have any known bleeding disorder at the discretion of the investigator

- Presence of any other life-threatening illness, such as unstable angina, severe oxygen
dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or unstable liver or renal disease

- Treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, granulocyte-macrophage
colony-stimulating factor or Interleukin-1l within 30 days prior to the start of RT

- Patients who have had prior exposure to mitomycin C or porfiromycin