Conditions: Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Keywords: Stage IVB
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 46
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is designed to determine whether an investigational drug combination consisting of Gemzar®, Taxotere®, and Xeloda®, (called GTX) is safe and effective in treating advanced pancreatic cancer and to study and enhance the utility of PET scans in the evaluation of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Detailed description:
This Phase II multicenter study is designed to determine the response rate to a biochemically synergistic regimen with Gemzar, Taxotere, and Xeloda in patients with Stage IVB metastatic pancreatic cancer. It will further determine the overall and one year survival rates, the diseasefree interval, and the toxicities for this regimen in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Arms:
arm 1: Gemcitabine, Docetaxel, Capecitabine:

Gemzar intravenously on Day 4 and 11 Taxotere intravenously on Day 4 and 11 Xeloda tablet taken orally every day for 14 days

Interventions: intervention 1: Gemcitabine, Docetaxel, Capecitabine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 1500mg/m2/day of Capecitabine for 14 days 750mg/m2 of Gemcitabine on Day 4 and 11 30mg/m2 of Docetaxel on Day 4 and 11

This 2-week regimen is followed by 1 week off for a total of a 21-day cycle. This is repeated for a total of 3 cycles.

Protocol document: