Conditions: Breast Cancer
Keywords: cyclophosphamide methotrexate fluorouracil PEG-filgrastim
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 38
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil) is used to treat early stage breast cancer. The combination, of these three drugs, has been used for approximately 30 years in the treatment of breast cancer, and has been shown to be safe and effective. It is usually given every 3 weeks. Doctors believe, based on other breast cancer trials, that giving this type of chemotherapy in a shorter amount of time, every 2 weeks or sooner, instead of every 3 weeks, may be better. The purpose of this study is to test the safety of these drugs, given every 2 weeks or sooner, to treat breast cancer. Other breast cancer chemotherapy regimens have shown to be more beneficial when the drugs are given more frequently.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: This is a pilot study using 8 cycles of CMF (cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2, methotrexate 40 mg/m2, and fluorouracil 600 mg/m2), at 14 day intervals supported by PEG-filgrastim for a cohort of 38 patients. A safety analysis will then be performed.

Interventions: intervention 1: cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil, PEG-filgrastim
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: C (cyclophosphamide) 600 mg/m2 M (methotrexate) 40 mg/m2 F (fluorouracil) 600 mg/m2 P (PEG-filgrastim ) 6 mg. Eight doses of CMF q 14 days with PEG-filgrastim administered approximately 24 hours after chemotherapy. Day 14, is also considered day 1 of the next cycle.

Protocol document: