Trial of ABI-007 Administered Weekly in Chemotherapy Naive Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

The anticancer agent paclitaxel (Taxol for Injection Concentrate, Bristol-Meyers Squibb) has a broad spectrum of activity against several human cancers including carcinomas of ovary, breast, lung, esophagus and head and neck cancer. Taxol has shown remarkable activity against metastatic breast cancer, yielding response rates in the range of 40% to 60% in chemotherapy-naive patients and 25%-30% in patients refractory to anthracycline-containing regimens (Taxol package insert). The major limitation of Taxol is its poor water soluability requiring Cremophor (containing castor oil and ethanol) as a solvent. Taxol in this vehicle must be administered over 3-24 hours, and hypersensitivity reactions to Cremophor require a premedication routine of a corticosteroid, an antihistamine, and an H2 antagonist.

Timeline

Start

2003-12

Primary completion

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Completion

2007-01

Publications

• Background Paik PK, James LP, Riely GJ, Azzoli CG, Miller VA, Ng KK, Sima CS, Heelan RT, Kris MG, Moore E, Rizvi NA. A phase 2 study of weekly albumin-bound paclitaxel (Abraxane(R)) given as a two-hour infusion. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2011 Nov;68(5):1331-7. doi: 10.1007/s00280-011-1621-0. Epub 2011 Apr 3.
• Background Rizvi NA, Riely GJ, Azzoli CG, Miller VA, Ng KK, Fiore J, Chia G, Brower M, Heelan R, Hawkins MJ, Kris MG. Phase I/II trial of weekly intravenous 130-nm albumin-bound paclitaxel as initial chemotherapy in patients with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Feb 1;26(4):639-43. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.10.8605.

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