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Combination Chemotherapy Plus Filgrastim in Treating Patients With Stage IV Prostate Cancer That Has Not Responded to Hormone Therapy

For Condition: adenocarcinoma of the prostate,stage 4 prostate cancer,recurrent prostate cancer
Status: No longer recruiting
Sponsor(s): National Cancer Institute (NCI) , Cancer and Leukemia Group B
Synopsis: RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy plus filgrastim in treating patients who have stage IV prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.
Details: OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the response rate (objective and PSA response) and duration of response to estramustine, docetaxel, and carboplatin with filgrastim (G-CSF) support in patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer. II. Determine the toxicity of this regimen in this patient population. PROTOCOL OUTLINE: Patients receive oral estramustine 3 times daily on days 1-5. Patients receive docetaxel IV over 1 hour followed by carboplatin IV over 1 hour on day 2. Filgrastim (G-CSF) SC is administered beginning on day 6 and continuing until hematopoietic recovery. Treatment continues every 21 days in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. Patients are followed every 3 months for a maximum of 2 years. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 39 patients will be accrued for this study within 10 months.
Eligibility:
Study Type:
  Interventional, Treatment
Minimum Age/Maximum Age: 18 Years/
Genders: 
Protocol Entry Criteria: PROTOCOL ENTRY CRITERIA: --Disease Characteristics-- - Histologically confirmed stage IV adenocarcinoma of the prostate - Failure on standard hormone therapy - Measurable disease with any PSA; Accurately measured in at least 1 dimension as at least 20 mm by physical exam for clinically palpable lymph nodes and superficial skin lesions or chest x-ray for clearly defined lung lesions surrounded by aerated lung OR those lesions measured as at least 10 mm by spiral CT scan OR Nonmeasurable disease with PSA at least 5 ng/mL; Nontarget lesions including small lesions with longest diameter less than 20 mm by conventional techniques or less than 10 mm by spiral CT scan and truly nonmeasurable lesions including: Bone lesions; Pleural or pericardial effusions; Ascites; CNS lesions; Leptomeningeal disease; Irradiated lesions unless progression documented after radiotherapy - Documented progressive systemic disease despite at least 1 endocrine manipulation with either orchiectomy or LHRH agonist (which must be continued), or diethylstilbestrol; For measurable disease: Objective evidence of increase of greater than 20% in the sum of the longest diameters of target lesions from the time of maximal regression or the appearance of 1 or more new lesions; For nonmeasurable disease: If bone only disease, appearance of 1 new lesion on bone scan attributable to prostate cancer along with a PSA of at least 5 ng/mL OR An elevated PSA (at least 5 ng/mL) that has risen serially from baseline on 2 occasions each at least 1 week apart - Testosterone no greater than 50 ng/mL if no prior bilateral orchiectomy --Prior/Concurrent Therapy-- - Biologic therapy: No concurrent sargramostim (GM-CSF) - Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy; No prior estramustine or suramin; No other concurrent chemotherapy - Endocrine therapy: See Disease Characteristics; At least 4 weeks since prior antiandrogens; Primary testicular androgen suppression (e.g., with an LHRH analogue) should not be discontinued; Concurrent LHRH analogue allowed if no prior bilateral orchiectomy - Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics; At least 4 weeks since prior radiation and recovered; At least 8 weeks since prior strontium chloride Sr 89 or samarium Sm 153 lexidronam pentasodium; No concurrent palliative radiotherapy - Surgery: See Disease Characteristics; At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery and recovered --Patient Characteristics-- - Age: 18 to 99 - Performance status: ECOG 0-2 - Life expectancy: Not specified - Hematopoietic: WBC at least 3,000/mm3; Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 - Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 1.0 times upper limit of normal (ULN); AST no greater than 1.5 times ULN - Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN - Cardiovascular: No myocardial infarction or significant change in anginal pattern within past 1 year; No congestive heart failure; No New York Heart Association class II-IV heart disease; No deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus within past 1 year - Other: Fertile patients must use effective contraception; No clinically significant peripheral neuropathy; No known hypersensitivity to E. coli derived products
Total Enrollment: 

Location and Contact Information:

Overall Study Official:
WilliamOh,  Study Chair,  Cancer and Leukemia Group B

Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
Chapel Hill,  North Carolina,  27599-7295
United States
 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York City,  New York,  10021
United States
 

University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
Chicago,  Illinois,  60637
United States
 

Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Lebanon,  New Hampshire,  03756
United States
 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston,  Massachusetts,  02115
United States
 

UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute
San Francisco,  California,  94115-0128
United States
 

Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
Baltimore,  Maryland,  21201
United States
 


Additional Information:
Study ID Numbers:
  CDR0000067811;  CLB-99813
Study Start Date: March 2000
Record last reviewed: April 2004
Additional information available at: clinicaltrials.gov
Clinicaltrials.gov Reference link: NCT00005810

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