drugset / Trial / NCT00062010

Interferon Alfa, Isotretinoin, and Paclitaxel in Treating Patients With Recurrent Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT00062010

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Some tumors become resistant to chemotherapy drugs. Giving interferon alfa and isotretinoin together with paclitaxel may reduce resistance to the drug and allow the tumor cells to be killed. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving interferon alfa and isotretinoin together with paclitaxel works in treating patients with recurrent small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start
2004-05-26
Primary completion
2011-05
Completion
2012-08

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Isotretinoin Other / unclassified 1 mg/kg Oral
Subject Paclitaxel Small molecule 75 mg/m2 Intravenous
Subject interferon alfa-2b Protein / enzyme biologic 6 unknown Subcutaneous