Ixabepilone in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well ixabepilone works in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Timeline

Start

2002-05

Primary completion

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Completion

2007-07

Publications

• Results Denduluri N, Low JA, Lee JJ, Berman AW, Walshe JM, Vatas U, Chow CK, Steinberg SM, Yang SX, Swain SM. Phase II trial of ixabepilone, an epothilone B analog, in patients with metastatic breast cancer previously untreated with taxanes. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Aug 10;25(23):3421-7. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.10.0784. Epub 2007 Jul 2.
• Results Low J, Croarkin E, Parks R, et al.: Assessment of neurotoxicity in patients receiving BMS-247550 for metastatic breast cancer. [Abstract] Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 85.2: A-358, 2004. Also available online. Last accessed April 22, 2004.

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