Lurtotecan Liposome in Treating Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Ovarian Epithelial Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing of die. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of two treatment regimens of lurtotecan liposome in patients who have advanced or recurrent ovarian epithelial cancer, primary fallopian tube cancer, or peritoneal cancer that has been previously treated with chemotherapy.

Timeline

Start

2000-10-31

Primary completion

2002-10-22

Completion

2008-09-22

Publications

• Results Dark GG, Calvert AH, Grimshaw R, Poole C, Swenerton K, Kaye S, Coleman R, Jayson G, Le T, Ellard S, Trudeau M, Vasey P, Hamilton M, Cameron T, Barrett E, Walsh W, McIntosh L, Eisenhauer EA. Randomized trial of two intravenous schedules of the topoisomerase I inhibitor liposomal lurtotecan in women with relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer: a trial of the national cancer institute of Canada clinical trials group. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Mar 20;23(9):1859-66. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.02.028. Epub 2005 Feb 7.
• Results Calvert AH, Grimshaw R, Poole C, et al.: Randomized phase II trial of two intravenous schedules of the liposomal topoisomerase I inhibitor, NX211, in women with relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer (OVCA): an NCIC CTG study. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 21: A-830, 2002.
• Results Wolf J, Hamilton M, Eisenhauer E, et al.: Pharmacokinetics of NX211 (liposomal lurtotecan) using a limited sampling model in a phase II trial of patients with ovarian cancer. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 21: A-485, 2002.

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