drugset / Trial / NCT00062439

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, etoposide, and docetaxel, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining cisplatin and etoposide with radiation therapy may shrink the tumor so it can be removed by surgery. Giving docetaxel after surgery may kill any remaining tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving chemoradiotherapy together with cisplatin and etoposide followed by surgery and docetaxel works in treating patients with newly diagnosed Pancoast tumors, a type of non-small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start
2003-07
Primary completion
2010-12
Completion
2010-12

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Cisplatin Other / unclassified 50 mg/m2 Intravenous
Subject Docetaxel Small molecule 75 mg/m2 Intravenous
Subject Etoposide Small molecule 50 mg/m2 Intravenous

Indications