Conditions: Kidney Cancer
Keywords: stage IV renal cell cancer recurrent renal cell cancer papillary renal cell carcinoma
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 4
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
RATIONALE: Bortezomib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well bortezomib works in treating patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

Detailed description:
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine, preliminarily, the efficacy of bortezomib in patients with metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma in terms of objective response rate after a minimum of 2 courses of treatment.

Secondary

* Correlate clinical response in these patients with baseline von Hippel-Lindau expression and nuclear factor-KB activity.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label study.

Patients receive bortezomib IV over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, 8, and 11. Treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 1 month and then periodically for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 27 patients will be accrued for this study.

Arms:
arm 1: Velcade IV twice a week for two weeks on Days 1, 4, 8 and 11 of each cycle. A 10 day-rest period (Days 12-21) with no Velcade will follow the 2 weeks of treatment in each cycle. one cycle = 21 days

Interventions: intervention 1: bortezomib
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: