Octreotide With or Without Prednisone in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Thymoma

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 compare the effectiveness of octreotide alone or with prednisone in treating patients with metastatic or recurrent thymoma.

Timeline

Start

1998-10-13

Primary completion

2003-09

Completion

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Publications

• Results Aisner SC, Dahlberg S, Hameed MR, Ettinger DS, Schiller JH, Johnson DH, Aisner J, Loehrer PJ. Epidermal growth factor receptor, C-kit, and Her2/neu immunostaining in advanced or recurrent thymic epithelial neoplasms staged according to the 2004 World Health Organization in patients treated with octreotide and prednisone: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group study. J Thorac Oncol. 2010 Jun;5(6):885-92. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181d86a30.
• Results Loehrer PJ Sr, Wang W, Johnson DH, Aisner SC, Ettinger DS; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Phase II Trial. Octreotide alone or with prednisone in patients with advanced thymoma and thymic carcinoma: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Phase II Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2004 Jan 15;22(2):293-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2004.02.047.
• Results Loehrer PJ, Wang W, Ettinger DS, et al.: Phase II study of octreotide treatment in advanced or recurrent thymic malignancies: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group study. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 21: A-1178, 2002.

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