Decitabine in Treating Patients With Unresectable Lung or Esophageal Cancer or Malignant Mesothelioma of the Pleura

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of decitabine in treating patients who have unresectable lung or esophageal cancer or malignant mesothelioma of the pleura.

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Start

1999-10

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Publications

• Background Weiser TS, Guo ZS, Ohnmacht GA, Parkhurst ML, Tong-On P, Marincola FM, Fischette MR, Yu X, Chen GA, Hong JA, Stewart JH, Nguyen DM, Rosenberg SA, Schrump DS. Sequential 5-Aza-2 deoxycytidine-depsipeptide FR901228 treatment induces apoptosis preferentially in cancer cells and facilitates their recognition by cytolytic T lymphocytes specific for NY-ESO-1. J Immunother. 2001 Mar-Apr;24(2):151-61. doi: 10.1097/00002371-200103000-00010.
• Background Weiser TS, Ohnmacht GA, Guo ZS, Fischette MR, Chen GA, Hong JA, Nguyen DM, Schrump DS. Induction of MAGE-3 expression in lung and esophageal cancer cells. Ann Thorac Surg. 2001 Jan;71(1):295-301; discussion 301-2. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(00)02421-8.

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