Conditions: Bladder Cancer
Keywords: URETER URINARY BLADDER renal pelvis GEMCITABINE GW786034 (PAZOPANIB) 11-191
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 2
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Gemcitabine and Cisplatin are standard chemotherapy drugs used to treat advanced urothelial cancer. There is no standard chemotherapy for patients who cannot receive Cisplatin. However, most patients are treated with the chemotherapy drugs Gemcitabine and Carboplatin.

In this study, the researchers hope to learn what effects, good and/or bad, the combination of Gemcitabine and Pazopanib has on urothelial cancer. Gemcitabine is given intravenously (through the veins) and works by killing rapidly dividing cells in the body, including cancer cells. Pazopanib is an oral chemotherapy and works by decreasing the blood supply to tumors which limits the tumor's source of oxygen and nutrients.

The combination of Gemcitabine and Pazopanib is being tested in research studies such as this one. As of August 2011, more than 18 patients with various types of cancer have received treatment with Gemcitabine and Pazopanib. The main goal of this clinical research study is to learn if the study drugs Gemcitabine and Pazopanib can shrink or slow the growth of urothelial cancer. The safety of this drug will also be studied. The physical state, changes in the size of the tumor, and laboratory findings will help us decide if the combination of Gemcitabine and Pazopanib is safe and effective.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: This is a phase II trial of gemcitabine and pazopanib in previously untreated patients with advanced/metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

Interventions: intervention 1: Gemcitabine intervention 2: Pazopanib
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Patients will receive gemcitabine 1200 mg/m2 intravenously on day 1 and day 8 and. Patients will receive 6 cycles of combination therapy (gemcitabine and pazopanib) unless disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs. Patients that achieve stable disease, a partial response, or a complete response after completion of 6 cycles, and who are not candidates for consolidation surgery, will be eligible to continue pazopanib monotherapy at the same dose and schedule until disease progression for a maximum of 18 additional cycles. intervention 2: pazopanib 800 mg orally daily day 1 through day 21 (1 cycle = 21 days) Patients will receive 6 cycles of combination therapy (gemcitabine and pazopanib) unless disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs. Patients that achieve stable disease, a partial response, or a complete response after completion of 6 cycles, and who are not candidates for consolidation surgery, will be eligible to continue pazopanib monotherapy at the same dose and schedule until disease progression for a maximum of 18 additional cycles.

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