Chemotherapy in Treating Children With Liver Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which chemotherapy regimen is more effective in treating children with liver cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of cisplatin with or without doxorubicin and the effectiveness of combining cisplatin, carboplatin, and doxorubicin in treating children who have liver cancer.

Timeline

Start

1998-06

Primary completion

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Completion

2009-10

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper As compared with cisplatin plus doxorubicin, cisplatin monotherapy achieved similar rates of complete resection PMID 19846851 ↗

paper difference, 1.4%; 95% confidence interval [CI], -4.1 to 7.0 PMID 19846851 ↗

Publications

• Background Brock P, Shafford E, Brugieres L, et al.: Metastatic hepatoblastoma (HB) treated with a dose intensive multiagent chemotherapy regimen, results from the second study of the Childhood Liver Tumour Strategy Group of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology- SIOPEL 2. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 21: A-1603, 2002.
• Background Perilongo G, Shafford E, Brugieres L, et al.: Cisplatin (CDDP) alone and delayed surgery, an effective treatment for standard risk (SR) hepatoblastoma (HB), the most relevant finding of the SIOPEL2. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 21: A-1571, 2002.
• Background Perilongo G, Shafford E, Plaschkes J; Liver Tumour Study Group of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology. SIOPEL trials using preoperative chemotherapy in hepatoblastoma. Lancet Oncol. 2000 Oct;1:94-100. doi: 10.1016/s1470-2045(00)00018-8.
• Results Perilongo G, Maibach R, Shafford E, Brugieres L, Brock P, Morland B, de Camargo B, Zsiros J, Roebuck D, Zimmermann A, Aronson D, Childs M, Widing E, Laithier V, Plaschkes J, Pritchard J, Scopinaro M, MacKinlay G, Czauderna P. Cisplatin versus cisplatin plus doxorubicin for standard-risk hepatoblastoma. N Engl J Med. 2009 Oct 22;361(17):1662-70. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0810613.
• Weeda VB, Murawski M, McCabe AJ, Maibach R, Brugieres L, Roebuck D, Fabre M, Zimmermann A, Otte JB, Sullivan M, Perilongo G, Childs M, Brock P, Zsiros J, Plaschkes J, Czauderna P, Aronson DC. Fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma does not have a better survival than conventional hepatocellular carcinoma--results and treatment recommendations from the Childhood Liver Tumour Strategy Group (SIOPEL) experience. Eur J Cancer. 2013 Aug;49(12):2698-704. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2013.04.012. Epub 2013 May 15.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Carboplatin	Small molecule	—	Intravenous
Subject	Cisplatin	Other / unclassified	80 mg/m2	Intravenous
Subject	Doxorubicin	Other / unclassified	—	Intravenous

Indications