FR901228 in Treating Patients With Previously Treated Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as FR901228, 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 FR901228 works in treating patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer.

Timeline

Start

2004-04

Primary completion

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Completion

2006-04

Publications

• Results Whitehead RP, Rankin C, Hoff PM, Gold PJ, Billingsley KG, Chapman RA, Wong L, Ward JH, Abbruzzese JL, Blanke CD. Phase II trial of romidepsin (NSC-630176) in previously treated colorectal cancer patients with advanced disease: a Southwest Oncology Group study (S0336). Invest New Drugs. 2009 Oct;27(5):469-75. doi: 10.1007/s10637-008-9190-8. Epub 2008 Oct 22.
• Results Whitehead RP, McCoy S, Wollner IS, et al.: Phase II trial of depsipeptide (NSC-630176) in colorectal cancer patients who have received either one or two prior chemotherapy regimens for metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable disease: a Southwest Oncology Group study. [Abstract] American Society of Clinical Oncology 2006 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, 26-28 January 2006, San Francisco, California. A-255, 2006.

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