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Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT00041015

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

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 drug may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective in treating extensive-stage small cell lung cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare different chemotherapy regimens in treating patients who have extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start
2001-09
Primary completion
2002-11
Completion
2002-11

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Cisplatin Other / unclassified Intravenous
Subject Etoposide Small molecule Intravenous
Comparator Topotecan Small molecule Oral