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CompletedNCT00003939

Ecteinascidin 743 in Treating Patients With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Phase II Study on ET-743 in Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Adult

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
132 (actual)
Sponsor
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC · Network
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of ecteinascidin 743 in treating patients who have advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the therapeutic activity of ecteinascidin 743 in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas. II. Determine the duration of response in these patients. III. Determine the acute side effects in these patients. OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients receive ecteinascidin 743 (ET-743) IV over 24 hours every 3 weeks. Treatment continues for at least 2-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients are followed every 6 weeks until disease progression and every 12 weeks after disease progression. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 28-44 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DRUGtrabectedin

Timeline

Primary completion
2000-11-01
First posted
2004-06-03
Last updated
2012-09-24

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00003939. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.