Clinical trial NCT00003929: Chemotherapy, Filgrastim, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Official title: Combined Modality Therapy of AIDS-Related and Immunocompetent Primary CNS Lymphoma (PCL) Using Filgrastim (G-CSF)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Lymphoma
Keywords: primary central nervous system lymphoma
AIDS-related primary CNS lymphoma
Lead sponsor: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2004-07-26
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. Combining chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more cancer cells. Colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim allow doctors to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs to kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of lomustine, procarbazine, filgrastim, and radiation therapy in treating patients who have primary central nervous system lymphoma.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES: I. Determine response rate, response duration, and survival of patients with AIDS-related or immunocompetent primary central nervous system lymphoma after treatment with oral lomustine and procarbazine, filgrastim (G-CSF), and radiotherapy. II. Determine toxicity of this combined modality in these patients. III. Determine quality of life of these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients are stratified by CD4 count (50/mm3 and under vs greater than 50/mm3). Patients receive oral lomustine on day 1 and oral procarbazine on days 1-10 and days 22-31. Filgrastim (G-CSF) is administered subcutaneously daily on days 12-21 and days 33-42, until absolute neutrophil counts recover. Patients with a complete response after 6 weeks receive one additional course of chemotherapy prior to radiotherapy. Patients with a partial response, stable disease, or disease progression after 6 weeks proceed to radiotherapy without receiving a second course of chemotherapy. Whole brain radiotherapy is administered daily for 28 days beginning 1-3 weeks following chemotherapy. Quality of life is assessed prior to therapy, at 3 and 6 weeks, and then every 2 months following radiotherapy. Patients are followed every 2 months until death.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 16 patients will be accrued for this study.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the CNS or non AIDS-related,non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of CNS also eligible, if not eligible for higher priority clinical trial

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 0-120 Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy: At least 6 weeks Hematopoietic: WBC at least 1500/ mm3 Platelets at least 50,000/mm3 Hepatic: Serum bilirubin no greater than 3.0 mg/dL Renal: Serum creatinine no greater than 3.0 mg/dL Cardiovascular: Pulmonary: Other: Active infection(s) allowed if drug receiving treatment No Zidovudine during combined modality chemotherapy and radition Negative CSF cytology

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Steroids may be used concurrently. Doses should be as low as possible. Increases in steroids above study's upper limit will result in patient going off study. Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: Prior surgical debulking allowed

Primary outcomes:
measure: Effectiveness of lomustine, procarbazine, filgrastim, and radiation therapy in treating patients who have primary central nervous system lymphoma.
timeFrame: Patients with a CR after 6 weeks receive one additional course of chemotherapy prior to radiotherapy. Patients with a PR, stable disease, or disease progression after 6 weeks proceed to radiotherapy without receiving a second course of chemotherapy.
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Locations:
city: Cleveland
country: United States
facility: Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
name: Scot C. Remick, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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