Overview
Surgery and Intrapleural Docetaxel in Treating Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusion
Status:
Completed
Completed
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
1969-12-31
Target enrollment:
0
0
Participant gender:
All
All
Summary
RATIONALE: Giving drugs, such as docetaxel, directly into the pleura after surgery to drain the pleural effusion may help keep fluid from building up again. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects, best way to give, and best dose of intrapleural docetaxel given after surgery in patients with malignant pleural effusion.Phase:
Phase 1Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
NoDetails
Lead Sponsor:
University of VirginiaCollaborator:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)Treatments:
Docetaxel
Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:- Histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant pleural effusion (MPE)
- Symptomatic disease
- Candidate for thoracoscopic surgery for treatment of MPE
- No known or suspected ipsilateral pleurodesis that would preclude surgery
- No bilateral MPEs
- No progressive extrapleural disease that is untreatable and/or resistant to systemic
treatment
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Age
- 18 and over
Performance status
- ECOG 0-2
Life expectancy
- Not specified
Hematopoietic
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
Hepatic
- ALT and/or AST ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (if alkaline phosphatase
normal) OR
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN (if ALT and/or AST normal)
- Bilirubin normal
- INR ≤ 1.5
Renal
- Creatinine ≤ 1.8 mg/dL
Other
- Not pregnant
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for ≥ 1 month after
completion of study treatment
- No history of severe hypersensitivity reaction to docetaxel or other drugs formulated
with polysorbate 80
- No peripheral neuropathy > grade 1
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Biologic therapy
- Not specified
Chemotherapy
- No concurrent systemic chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy
- Not specified
Radiotherapy
- Not specified
Surgery
- Not specified