Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancer of the Pancreas

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more that one drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining gemcitabine and docetaxel in treating patients who have locally advanced or metastatic cancer of the pancreas.

Timeline

Start

1999-08-11

Primary completion

2002-05

Completion

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Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Out of the 32 eligible patients, 2 patients had a complete response and 2 patients had a partial response for an observed objective response rate of 12.5% PMID 15218298 ↗

Publications

• Results Shepard RC, Levy DE, Berlin JD, Stuart K, Harris JE, Aviles V, Thomas JP, Benson AB 3rd. Phase II study of gemcitabine in combination with docetaxel in patients with advanced pancreatic carcinoma (E1298). A trial of the eastern cooperative oncology group. Oncology. 2004;66(4):303-9. doi: 10.1159/000078331.
• Results Ryan DP, Kulke MH, Fuchs CS, Grossbard ML, Grossman SR, Morgan JA, Earle CC, Shivdasani R, Kim H, Mayer RJ, Clark JW. A Phase II study of gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with metastatic pancreatic carcinoma. Cancer. 2002 Jan 1;94(1):97-103. doi: 10.1002/cncr.10202.
• Results Shepard RC, Levy D, Stuart K, et al.: Pancreatic cancer: biweekly gemcitabine/docetaxel chemotherapy. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 20: A-614, 2001.

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