Clinical trial NCT00003530: Antineoplaston Therapy in Treating Patients With Primary Liver Cancer
Official title: Phase II Study of Antineoplaston A10 in Patients With Primary Liver Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Primary Liver Cancer
Keywords: Childhood primary liver cancer
Adult primary liver cancer
Lead sponsor: Burzynski Research Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2003-01-27
Enrollment: 3
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Current therapies for Primary Liver Cancer provide very limited benefit to the patient. The anti-cancer properties of Antineoplaston therapy suggest that it may prove beneficial in the treatment of Primary Liver Cancer.

PURPOSE: This study is being performed to determine the effects (good and bad) that Antineoplaston therapy has on patients with advanced Head and Neck Cancer.

Detailed description: Primary Liver Cancer patients receive gradually escalating doses of intravenous Antineoplaston therapy (Atengenal + Astugenal) until the maximum tolerated dose is reached. Treatment continues up to 12 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

OBJECTIVES:

* To determine the efficacy of Antineoplaston therapy in patients with advanced Primary Liver Cancer, as measured by an objective response to therapy (complete response, partial response or stable disease).
* To determine the safety and tolerance of Antineoplaston therapy in patients with advanced Primary Liver Cancer.
* To determine objective response, tumor size is measured utilizing MRI scans, which are performed every 8 weeks for the first two years, every 3 months for the third and fourth years, every 6 months for the 5th and sixth years, and annually thereafter.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically confirmed primary liver cancer that is unlikely to respond to existing therapy and for which no curative therapy exists
* Measurable disease by CT scan or MRI
* Tumor must be at least 2 cm

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* 14 and over

Performance status:

* Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

* At least 2 months

Hematopoietic:

* WBC at least 2,000/mm3
* Platelet count at least 50,000/mm3

Hepatic:

* Bilirubin less than 3 mg/dL
* SGOT/SGPT no greater than 10 times upper limit of normal
* No hepatic failure

Renal:

* Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL
* No history of renal conditions that contraindicate high doses of sodium

Cardiovascular:

* No uncontrolled hypertension
* No known chronic heart failure
* No history of congestive heart failure
* No history of other cardiovascular conditions that contraindicate high doses of sodium

Pulmonary:

* No serious lung disease (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Other:

* Not pregnant or nursing
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception for 4 weeks before study, during study, and for 4 weeks after study
* No serious medical or psychiatric disease
* No active infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* At least 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy and recovered
* No concurrent immunomodulating agents

Chemotherapy:

* At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas) and recovered
* No concurrent antineoplastic agents

Endocrine therapy:

* Concurrent steroids allowed

Radiotherapy:

* At least 8 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered

Surgery:

* Recovered from prior surgery

Other:

* No prior antineoplaston therapy
* Prior cytodifferentiating agents allowed

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Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Burzynski Clinic
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Burzynski Research Institute
name: Stanislaw R. Burzynski, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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