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Cervical CancerPhase 1NCT00098995

Tirapazamine, Cisplatin, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage IB, Stage II, Stage III, or Stage IVA Cervical Cancer

A Phase 1 study testing cisplatin, tirapazamine and brachytherapy in people with Cervical Cancer, run by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia at 2 sites in 2 countries.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as tirapazamine and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Tirapazamine may help cisplatin kill more tumor cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age, women only
Conditions the study is for
Cervical Cancer
What is being tested?
cisplatin, tirapazamine and brachytherapy
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
How many people
22 participants
Where
2 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
Dec 2004to Jan 2010
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, or adenosquamous cell carcinoma of the cervix
  • Stage IB, IIA, IIB, III, or IVA disease
  • No evidence of involvement of para-aortic nodes by CT scan, MRI, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, or lymphadenectomy
  • Involvement of common iliac nodes allowed
  • No evidence of distant metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • Any age

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

  • More than 6 months

Hematopoietic

  • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin < 1.25 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST and ALT ≤ 3 times ULN

Renal

  • Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min OR
  • Glomerular filtration rate ≥ 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular

  • No significant cardiac disease that would preclude IV fluid load required for administration of cisplatin
  • No symptomatic congestive heart failure
  • No unstable angina pectoris
  • No cardiac arrhythmia

Other

  • No symptomatic peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2
  • No clinically significant sensori-neural hearing impairment interfering with activities of daily living or requiring a hearing aid
  • Audiometric changes alone of any severity allowed
  • No history of allergic reaction attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to tirapazamine or cisplatin
  • No other invasive malignancy within the past 5 years except nonmelanoma skin cancer
  • No ongoing or active infection
  • No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
  • No other concurrent uncontrolled illness
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • No concurrent epoetin alfa
  • No concurrent prophylactic filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF)
  • No concurrent pegfilgrastim

Chemotherapy

  • No prior chemotherapy for another malignancy

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • No prior pelvic or abdominal radiotherapy for another malignancy
  • No prior radiotherapy to ≥ 15% of bone marrow-bearing areas
  • No concurrent intensity-modulated radiotherapy
  • No concurrent interstitial brachytherapy

Surgery

  • Not specified

Other

  • No prior treatment for invasive cervical cancer
  • No other concurrent therapeutic investigational agents
  • No other concurrent anticancer therapy
  • No concurrent systemic retinoids
  • No concurrent amifostine
  • No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 2 countries.

2 sites in 2 countries

Australia1 site
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

    East Melbourne, Victoria, 8006

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Canada1 site
  • Princess Margaret Hospital

    Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9

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About this study

Official title: A Phase I Study Of Tirapazamine In Combination With Radiation And Weekly Cisplatin In Patients With Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as tirapazamine and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Tirapazamine may help cisplatin kill more tumor cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Tirapazamine may also make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. Giving radiation therapy in different ways together with combination chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of tirapazamine when given together with cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating patients with stage IB, stage II, stage III, or stage IVA cervical cancer.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Determine the maximum tolerated dose and the recommended phase II and III dose of tirapazamine when combined with cisplatin and radiotherapy in patients with Stage IB-IVA squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, or adenosquamous cell carcinoma of the cervix.
  • Determine the safety and tolerability of this regimen in these patients.

Secondary

  • Determine failure-free survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine time to locoregional failure in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine patterns of failure for the site of first failure in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the 12-week post-treatment complete response rate in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study of tirapazamine.

Patients receive tirapazamine IV over 2 hours on day 1 of weeks 1-5 and on days 3 and 5 of weeks 1 and 2 (cohort 2 only), OR days 3 and 5 of weeks 1-4 (cohort 3 only). Patients also receive cisplatin IV over 1 hour on day 1 of weeks 1-6. Patients concurrently undergo external beam radiotherapy once daily on days 1-5 for 5-5.5 weeks. After completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients undergo low-dose brachytherapy (up to 2 implants within an 8-week period) OR high-dose brachytherapy twice weekly for 5 treatments. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of tirapazamine until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. At least 10 patients are treated at the MTD.

Patients are followed at 2, 4, and 8 weeks, at 3 and 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 6 months for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 3-22 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions
Cervical Cancer
Being tested
cisplatin, tirapazamine, brachytherapy, radiation therapy
Keywords
stage IB cervical cancer, stage IIA cervical cancer, stage IIB cervical cancer, stage III cervical cancer, stage IVA cervical cancer, cervical adenocarcinoma, cervical adenosquamous cell carcinoma, cervical squamous cell carcinoma
Medical subject headings
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • cisplatinDrug

  • tirapazamineDrug

  • brachytherapyRadiation

  • radiation therapyRadiation

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Maximum tolerated dose of tirapazamine

  2. Safety and tolerability

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Failure-free survival

  2. Overall survival

  3. Patterns of failure for the site of first failure (local-regional, distant, or both)

  4. Complete response rate at 12 weeks following study completion

  5. Hypoxia by 18F-azomycinarabinoside (FAZA) PET scan at baseline and 12 wks following completion of radiotherapy correlated w/ obj. tumor response by PET- fludeoxyglucose F 18 (FDG) and local-regional failure

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Dec 2004 (estimated)
  2. Study startDec 2004
  3. Primary completionJan 2010
  4. Study completionJan 2010

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Enrolment
22 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00098995
Sponsor's protocol ID
PMCC-2004/354
Other IDs
CDR0000393978, NCI-5485
Status last verified
Nov 2006
First submitted
8 Dec 2004
Last updated
26 Jun 2013
Results posted
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing cisplatin, tirapazamine and brachytherapy in people with Cervical Cancer, run by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia at 2 sites in 2 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Jun 2013. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in Australia, Canada. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Maximum tolerated dose of tirapazamine. The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Jun 2013.

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