Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery With or Without G-CSF in Treating Patients With Osteosarcoma

Summary

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 G-CSF 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. It is not yet known whether chemotherapy and surgery plus G-CSF is more effective than chemotherapy and surgery alone in treating patients with osteosarcoma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness combination chemotherapy and surgery with or without G-CSF in treating patients who have newly diagnosed osteosarcoma.

Timeline

Start

1993-08

Primary completion

2002-10

Completion

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Publications

• Results Lewis IJ, Nooij MA, Whelan J, Sydes MR, Grimer R, Hogendoorn PC, Memon MA, Weeden S, Uscinska BM, van Glabbeke M, Kirkpatrick A, Hauben EI, Craft AW, Taminiau AH; MRC BO06 and EORTC 80931 collaborators; European Osteosarcoma Intergroup. Improvement in histologic response but not survival in osteosarcoma patients treated with intensified chemotherapy: a randomized phase III trial of the European Osteosarcoma Intergroup. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Jan 17;99(2):112-28. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djk015.
• Results Lewis IJ, Nooij M: Chemotherapy at standard or increased dose intensity in patients with operable osteosarcoma of the extremity: a randomised controlled trial conducted by the European Osteo Sarcoma Intergroup (ISRCTN 86294690). [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-3281, 816, 2003.

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