Capecitabine Combined With Cisplatin in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

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 chemotherapy drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of capecitabine combined with cisplatin in treating patients who have locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors .

Timeline

Start

2000-08

Primary completion

2007-08

Completion

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Publications

• Results Chen TT, Ryan T, Potmesil M, et al.: Cisplatin/capecitabine: tolerance and activity in patients with upper gastrointestinal cancers. [Abstract] American Society of Clinical Oncology 2004 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, 22-24 January 2004, San Francisco, CA. A-53, 2004.

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