Conditions: Acinar Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas Duct Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer Stage III Pancreatic Cancer Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 19
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining paclitaxel and bryostatin-1 in treating patients who have locally advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Bryostatin-1 may help paclitaxel kill more cancer cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug.

Detailed description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the response rates to weekly, sequential paclitaxel/ bryostatin-1 in patients with unresectable and metastatic pancreatic cancer.

II. To determine the toxicity of therapy. III. To determine patient survival after therapy. IV. To determine Bryostatin-1 pharmacokinetics.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label, multicenter study.

Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 1 hour on day 1 followed by bryostatin 1 IV over 1 hour on day 2 of weeks 1-3. Courses repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 1 hour on day 1 followed by bryostatin 1 IV over 1 hour on day 2 of weeks 1-3. Courses repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Interventions: intervention 1: paclitaxel intervention 2: bryostatin 1
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Given IV intervention 2: Given IV

Protocol document: