Overview
Study of Xeloda and Gleevec in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
Status:
Completed
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-08-01
2010-08-01
Target enrollment:
0
0
Participant gender:
All
All
Summary
This study is for people with solid tumors cancer for which the standard chemotherapy drugs have not worked. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the side effects of Xeloda (also called capecitabine) in combination with a new anticancer agent called Gleevec (also called imatinib mesylate). Xeloda is an anticancer drug, and can be taken by mouth. The active ingredient is a well-studied cancer drug called 5-FU. Xeloda is approved by the FDA for the treatment of colon cancer. Gleevec is approved in the US for the treatment of patients with a leukemia called CML (increase of white blood cells) after failure of standard therapy. It is also approved by the FDA for patients with Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (a rare tumor in the digestive tract). This study will test how much Gleevec we can safely give with Xeloda. Xeloda will be given at the recommended dose for colorectal cancer and Gleevec will be given in increasing amounts.Phase:
Phase 1Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
NoDetails
Lead Sponsor:
University of Southern CaliforniaCollaborator:
NovartisTreatments:
Capecitabine
Imatinib Mesylate
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:- Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic or unresectable solid tumor for
which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer
effective.
- SWOG performance status 0-2.
- ANC greater than 1500, platelets greater than 100,000.
- Total bilirubin less than 2 x upper limit of normal, or less than 3 x upper limit of
normal in patients with liver metastasis. Transaminase (AST and/or ALT) less than 2 x
upper limit of normal or less than 3 x upper limit of normal in patients with liver
metastasis.
- Serum creatinine less than 1.25 x institutional upper limit of normal.
- Female patients of childbearing potential must have negative pregnancy test within 7
days before initiation of study drug dosing.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has received any other investigational agent- within 28 days of first day of
study drug dosing.
- Patient with another primary malignancy except if the other primary malignancy is
neither currently clinically significant nor requiring active intervention.
- Patient has another severe and/or life-threatening medical disease.
- Patient has an acute or known chronic liver disease (e.g., chronic active hepatitis,
cirrhosis).
- Patient has a known diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- Patient has received chemotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosourea, mitomycin-C
or any antibody therapy) prior to study entry unless urgent enrollment needed and
approved by Novartis.
- Patient had a major surgery within 2 weeks prior to study entry.
- Patients with symptomatic brain metastasis.
- Patient with Grade III/IV cardiac problems as defined by the New York Heart
Association Criteria (e.g. congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within 6
months of study)
- Medical, social or psychological factors interfering with compliance.
- Patients under therapeutic coumadin therapy.
- Patients under routine systemic corticosteroid therapy.