Combination Chemotherapy as First-Line Therapy in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Duodenum or Pancreas That Cannot Be Removed By Surgery

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, leucovorin, and irinotecan, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy works as first-line therapy in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic neuroendocrine tumors of the duodenum or pancreas that cannot be removed by surgery.

Timeline

Start

2004-05

Primary completion

2006-01

Completion

2007-07

Publications

• Results Cadiot G, Bonnetain F, Landi B, et al.: Simplified LV5FU2-irinotecan (FOLFIRI) in the first-line therapy of well-differentiated endocrine carcinomas of the duodeno- pancreatic area: preliminary results of the FFCD 0302 phase II trial with GTE participation. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 25 (Suppl 18): A-4620, 2007.
• Results Brixi-Benmansour H, Jouve JL, Mitry E, Bonnetain F, Landi B, Hentic O, Bedenne L, Cadiot G. Phase II study of first-line FOLFIRI for progressive metastatic well-differentiated pancreatic endocrine carcinoma. Dig Liver Dis. 2011 Nov;43(11):912-6. doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2011.07.001. Epub 2011 Aug 9.

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