Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of fenretinide in treating patients who have advanced kidney cancer.

Timeline

Start

2000-12

Primary completion

2005-10

Completion

2005-10

Publications

• Results Vaishampayan U, Heilbrun LK, Parchment RE, Jain V, Zwiebel J, Boinpally RR, LoRusso P, Hussain M. Phase II trial of fenretinide in advanced renal carcinoma. Invest New Drugs. 2005 Mar;23(2):179-85. doi: 10.1007/s10637-005-5864-7.

Drugs

Indications