UCN-01 in Treating Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Kidney Cancer

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• 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.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of UCN-01 in treating patients who have unresectable stage III or stage IV kidney cancer.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: 7-hydroxystaurosporine; Staurosporine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically or cytologically confirmed stage IV or unresectable stage III renal cell carcinoma

• Metastatic disease must be amenable to biopsy or appropriate for nephrectomy before study therapy

• At least 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion

• At least 20 mm by conventional techniques OR at least 10 mm by spiral CT scan

• No known prior or concurrent CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

• 18 and over

Performance status:

• ECOG 0-2 OR

• Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

• More than 3 months

Hematopoietic:

• WBC at least 3,000/mm^3

• Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3

• Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

• Bilirubin normal

• AST/ALT no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal

Renal:

• Creatinine normal OR

• Creatinine clearance at least 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

• No history of clinically significant coronary artery disease

• No symptomatic cardiac dysfunction

• No symptomatic congestive heart failure

• No unstable angina pectoris

• No cardiac arrhythmia

Pulmonary:

• No symptomatic pulmonary dysfunction

Other:

• No prior allergic reactions to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to UCN-01

• No other uncontrolled concurrent illness

• No active or ongoing infection

• No known immune deficiency

• No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance

• No insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after study participation

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

• Not specified

Chemotherapy:

• At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin) and recovered

Endocrine therapy:

• Not specified

Radiotherapy:

• At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered

• No prior mediastinal radiation

Surgery:

• See Disease Characteristics

• At least 4 weeks since prior nephrectomy

Other:

• No more than 2 prior systemic therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma

• No other concurrent investigational agents