drugset / Trial / NCT00006220

Arsenic Trioxide With or Without Tretinoin in Treating Patients With Hematologic Cancer That Has Not Responded to Previous Therapy

NCT00006220

Non-randomizedParallel-groupTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Tretinoin may help hematologic cancer cells develop into normal white blood cells. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide with or without tretinoin in treating patients who have hematologic cancer that has not responded to previous therapy.

Timeline

Start
1999-06
Primary completion
2000-11
Completion
2002-02

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Tretinoin Small molecule
Subject arsenic trioxide Small molecule 0.15 mg/kg Intravenous