Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Extensive Stage 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 may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether combination chemotherapy with or without epirubicin and cyclophosphamide is more effective in treating patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with or without epirubicin and cyclophosphamide in treating patients who have extensive stage small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start

1996-03

Primary completion

1999-10-01

Completion

2001-06

Publications

• Results Pujol JL, Daures JP, Riviere A, Quoix E, Westeel V, Quantin X, Breton JL, Lemarie E, Poudenx M, Milleron B, Moro D, Debieuvre D, Le Chevalier T. Etoposide plus cisplatin with or without the combination of 4'-epidoxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide in treatment of extensive small-cell lung cancer: a French Federation of Cancer Institutes multicenter phase III randomized study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2001 Feb 21;93(4):300-8. doi: 10.1093/jnci/93.4.300.
• Results Pujol JL, Duares JP, Riviere A, et al.: Doublet etoposide - cisplatin (EP) versus quadruplet cisplatin - cyclophosphamide - epirubicin - etoposide (PCDE) in extensive disease small cell lung cancer (Ed-SCLC): a FNCLCC phase III multicenter study. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 19: A-1892, 2000.

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