Pemetrexed Disodium Plus Gemcitabine in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Phase 2 Completed 157 enrolled Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology National Cancer Institute (NCI) · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving more than one drug and giving the drugs in different ways may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of three different regimens of pemetrexed disodium plus gemcitabine in treating patients who have locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start: 2001-08
Primary completion: 2003-11
Completion: 2008-10

Outcome

Mixed primary results

paper Schedule A, with a confirmed response rate of 31% (95% CI, 20% to 45%), met the protocol-defined efficacy criteria PMID 16135464 ↗

paper schedule C, with a confirmed response rate of 16.1% (95% CI, 11% to 34%), did not. PMID 16135464 ↗

Publications

Background An MW, Mandrekar SJ, Branda ME, Hillman SL, Adjei AA, Pitot HC, Goldberg RM, Sargent DJ. Comparison of continuous versus categorical tumor measurement-based metrics to predict overall survival in cancer treatment trials. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Oct 15;17(20):6592-9. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0822. Epub 2011 Aug 31.
Background Campbell ME, Mandrekar SJ, Hillman SL, et al.: What is the added value of actual tumor measurements (TM) in predicting overall survival (OS)? The North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) findings. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 26 (Suppl 15): A-6520, 2008.
Background Jatoi A, Hillman S, Stella P, Green E, Adjei A, Nair S, Perez E, Amin B, Schild SE, Castillo R, Jett JR; North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Should elderly non-small-cell lung cancer patients be offered elderly-specific trials? Results of a pooled analysis from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Dec 20;23(36):9113-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.7465.
Results Adjei AA, Salavaggione OE, Mandrekar SJ, Dy GK, Ziegler KL, Endo C, Molina JR, Schild SE, Adjei AA. Correlation between polymorphisms of the reduced folate carrier gene (SLC19A1) and survival after pemetrexed-based therapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a North Central Cancer Treatment Group-based exploratory study. J Thorac Oncol. 2010 Sep;5(9):1346-53. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ec18c4.
Results Ma CX, Nair S, Thomas S, Mandrekar SJ, Nikcevich DA, Rowland KM, Fitch TR, Windschitl HE, Hillman SL, Schild SE, Jett JR, Obasaju C, Adjei AA; North Central Cancer Treatment Group; Mayo Clinic; Eli Lilly & Company. Randomized phase II trial of three schedules of pemetrexed and gemcitabine as front-line therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Sep 1;23(25):5929-37. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.13.953.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Gemcitabine	Small molecule	1250 mg/m2	Intravenous
Subject	Pemetrexed	Small molecule	500 mg/m2	Intravenous