Clinical trial NCT00004251: Letrozole in Treating Women With Recurrent or Metastatic Endometrial Cancer
Official title: A Phase II Study of Letrozole in Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Endometrial Cancer
Keywords: stage IV endometrial carcinoma
recurrent endometrial carcinoma
endometrial adenocarcinoma
endometrial adenosquamous cell carcinoma
Lead sponsor: Canadian Cancer Trials Group
Sponsor class: NETWORK
First posted: 2004-06-17
Enrollment: 33
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 120
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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 letrozole in treating women who have recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the efficacy of letrozole, in terms of objective tumor response and time to progression, in women with recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer. II. Determine the toxicity of letrozole in these patients. III. Determine the relationship between tumor receptor status, histologic grade, tumor aromatase activity, and tumor response in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients receive an oral letrozole tablet daily. Treatment continues for patients with complete or partial response until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with stable disease may discontinue therapy after 24 weeks. Patients are followed at 1 month and then every 3 months until death.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Up to 30 patients will be accrued for this study within 12-18 months.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven, recurrent or metastatic, adenocarcinoma or adenosquamous carcinoma of the endometrium not curable by surgery and/or radiotherapy Failed one prior progestin therapy for advanced/metastatic disease OR Considered for letrozole as first line therapy of advanced/metastatic disease No clear cell or papillary serous histology, uterine sarcomas, mixed muellerian tumors, and/or adenosarcomas At least one site of measurable disease by clinical exam, CT, or MRI scan Bone lesion(s) are not considered measurable No CNS metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Menopausal status: Postmenopausal (surgical or natural) Life expectancy: At least 12 weeks Hematopoietic: Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin less than upper limit of normal (ULN) AST or ALT no greater than 2 times ULN Alkaline phosphatase less than 2 times ULN Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2 times ULN Other: No other malignancy within the past 5 years, except: Adequately treated basal or squamous cell skin cancer Carcinoma in situ of the cervix No other concurrent medical illness that would preclude compliance

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy for advanced/metastatic disease At least 4 weeks since prior adjuvant chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: See Disease Characteristics No more than one prior progestational hormone therapy regimen for advanced/metastatic disease At least 1 week since prior hormonal therapy No prior tamoxifen or other aromatase inhibitor therapy Radiotherapy: See Disease Characteristics At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy Concurrent radiotherapy for symptomatic metastatic lesions allowed Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No other concurrent anticancer therapy No other concurrent investigational therapy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Objective tumour response
timeFrame: 3 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: duration of response and time to progression
timeFrame: 3 years
measure: toxicity
timeFrame: 3 years
measure: tumour response
timeFrame: 3 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada
name: Anthony Fyles, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Ma BB, Oza A, Eisenhauer E, Stanimir G, Carey M, Chapman W, Latta E, Sidhu K, Powers J, Walsh W, Fyles A. The activity of letrozole in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer and correlation with biological markers--a study of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2004 Jul-Aug;14(4):650-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1048-891X.2004.14419.x.
citation: Sidhu K, Fyles A, Eisenhauer E, et al.: Phase II study of the aromatase inhibitor letrozole in endometrial carcinoma - NCIC CTG IND 126. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 20: A-2520, 2001.