Combination Chemotherapy Followed by Radiation Therapy in Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug is a way to kill more tumor cells. Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effect of two combination chemotherapy regimens followed by radiation therapy in treating patients with small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start

1996-03

Primary completion

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Completion

2005-11

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Overall survival was longer in the ICE-V group (hazard ratio, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.60 to 0.91; P = .0049) PMID 16293867 ↗

Publications

• Results Thatcher N, Qian W, Clark PI, Hopwood P, Sambrook RJ, Owens R, Stephens RJ, Girling DJ. Ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide with midcycle vincristine versus standard chemotherapy in patients with small-cell lung cancer and good performance status: clinical and quality-of-life results of the British Medical Research Council multicenter randomized LU21 trial. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Nov 20;23(33):8371-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2004.00.9969.
• Results Thatcher N, Qian W, Girling DJ: Ifosfamide, carboplatin and etoposide with mid-cycle vincristine (ICE-V) versus standard chemotherapy (C) in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and good performance status (PS): results of an MRC randomized trial (LU21). [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-2489, 619, 2003.

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