Second-look Surgery With or Without Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Recurrent Colorectal Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2003-10-01
• 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. Giving chemotherapy drugs in different ways may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of second-look surgery with or without intraperitoneal infusions of mitomycin and fluorouracil in treating patients who have colorectal cancer that is recurrent to the peritoneum.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UNICANCER
• Treatments: Calcium; Fluorouracil; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Mitomycin; Mitomycins

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Primary diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum and meeting one of the following risk criteria during the primary surgery: Perforated bowel (spontaneous or not) Occlusion Peritoneal deposits Invasion of serosa of more than 4 cm diameter Concurrent ovarian metastases Randomization eligibility: Presence of proven recurrent peritoneal disease (only one micronodule of 1 mm sufficient) at second look laparotomy Total resection of macroscopic lesions possible (local recurrence, lymph node or hepatic metastases)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 70 and under Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: WBC at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.4 mg/dL Cardiovascular: No cardiac condition that would increase surgical risk Pulmonary: No pulmonary condition that would increase surgical risk Other: No other condition that would increase surgical risk No other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell skin cancer

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No concurrent immunotherapy Chemotherapy: No other concurrent chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: No concurrent hormonal therapy Radiotherapy: No concurrent anticancer radiotherapy Surgery: See Disease Characteristics