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CompletedNCT00011973

Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer

A Phase Two Study Of Fenretinide In Renal Cell Cancer

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
Sponsor
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
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 fenretinide in treating patients who have advanced kidney cancer.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * Determine the response rate of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with fenretinide. * Determine progression-free and overall survival of this patient population treated with this drug. * Determine the quantitative and qualitative toxic effects of this drug in these patients. OUTLINE: Patients receive oral fenretinide twice a day for 7 days. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 18-35 patients will be accrued for this study within 9-21 months.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DRUGfenretinide

Timeline

Start date
2000-12-01
Primary completion
2005-10-01
Completion
2005-10-01
First posted
2003-08-08
Last updated
2013-04-05

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00011973. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.

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