Flavopiridol in Treating Patients With Recurrent, Locally Advanced, or Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of flavopiridol in treating patients who have recurrent, locally advanced, or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

Detailed Description
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OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the efficacy of flavopiridol in terms of response rate in patients with previously untreated metastatic or locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma. II. Determine the toxicity of this regimen in these patients. III. Determine the time to progression, early progression rate, and response duration in patients treated with this regimen. OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients receive flavopiridol IV over 1 hour daily on days 1-3. Treatment continues every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients are followed at 4 weeks and then every 3 months until disease progression or death. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15-30 patients will be accrued for this study over 12-18 months.

Official Title
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A Phase II Study of Flavopiridol (HMR 1275; NSC 649890) in Patients With Previously Untreated Metastatic or Locally Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Conditions
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Sarcoma

Intervention / Treatment
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* Drug: alvocidib


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed previously untreated metastatic or locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma not amenable to standard curative therapies Measurable disease At least 20 mm by conventional techniques OR At least 10 mm by spiral CT scan Bone lesions are not considered measurable Must have measurable disease outside irradiated area unless evidence of progression or new lesions inside irradiated area No carcinosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, soft tissue Ewing's sarcoma, or embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy: At least 12 weeks Hematopoietic: Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than upper limit of normal (ULN) AST no greater than 2.5 times ULN Renal: Creatinine no greater than ULN Cardiovascular: If history of cardiac disease, cardiac ejection function greater than 50% No clinically significant cardiac symptomatology Pulmonary: If history of symptomatic pulmonary disease, FEV1, FVC, and TLC greater than 60% predicted and DLCO greater than 50% predicted No clinically significant pulmonary symptomatology Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception No other concurrent serious disease PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior stem cell transplantation Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy for metastatic or locally advanced disease No prior high dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation Prior adjuvant chemotherapy allowed At least 6 months since prior chemotherapy No other concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered No more than 25% of functioning bone marrow irradiated No concurrent radiotherapy to sole site of measurable disease Surgery: At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery Other: No other concurrent anticancer therapy

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 120 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Drug: alvocidib|Flavopiridol 50 mg/m2 IV over 1 hour daily x 3 days every 3 weeks|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Response Rate | To assess the efficacy (response rate) of flavopiridol given as an N infusion daily x 3 days every 3 weeks in the patients with untreated, metastatic or locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma. | 2 years | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Toxicity | To assess the toxicity of flavopiridol in patients with untreated, metastatic or locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma, as well as time to progression and early progression rate (PD within first 6 weeks), and, if responses are observed, response duration | 2 years | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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stage III adult soft tissue sarcoma, stage IV adult soft tissue sarcoma