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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 11 February 2013
Main ID:  NCT00002759
Date of registration: 01/11/1999
Primary sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Public title: Irinotecan Plus Cyclosporine and Phenobarbital in Treating Patients With Solid Tumors or Lymphoma
Scientific title: A PHASE I STUDY OF IRINOTECAN (CPT-11) WITH PHARMACOKINETIC MODULATION BY CYCLOSPORINE A AND PHENOBARBITAL
Date of first enrolment: June 1996
Target sample size: 3
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00002759
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Mark J. Ratain, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Chicago
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- Malignant solid tumor or lymphoma refractory to standard therapy or for which no
therapy of proven benefit exists

- No leukemia

- Measurable or evaluable disease

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- Age: 18 and over

- Performance status: Karnofsky 70-100%

- Life expectancy: At least 3 months

- WBC at least 3,500/mm3

- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3

- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3

- Hemoglobin at least 9 g/dL

- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL

- AST/ALT less than twice normal (unless due to disease)

- PT and PTT normal

- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL

- Creatinine clearance at least 60 mL/min

- No history of congestive heart failure requiring medical therapy

- No clinically significant or life threatening cardiac arrhythmia

- No history of significant pulmonary disease or lymphangitic lung disease

- No hypersensitivity to cyclosporine or cremophore

- No history of manifest or latent porphyria or hypersensitivity to barbiturates (for
parts of study using phenobarbital)

- No history of inflammatory bowel disease requiring therapy

- No chronic diarrhea syndrome or paralytic ileus

- No medical or psychiatric condition that precludes informed consent

- Not pregnant

- Effective contraception required of fertile women

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- At least 4 weeks since prior biologic therapy

- At least 2 weeks since prior colony stimulating factors

- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (at least 6 weeks since nitrosoureas or
mitomycin)

- No prior bleomycin or irinotecan

- At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy to greater than 25% of bone marrow

- Minimum time interval between prior therapy and eligibility shortened by 2 weeks when
phenobarbital is administered

- Concurrent use of medications that affect the central nervous or cardiovascular
systems (e.g., anticonvulsants, calcium channel blockers, oral contraceptives) must
be approved by the Principal Investigator



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Drug/Agent Toxicity by Tissue/Organ
Lymphoma
Neutropenia
Small Intestine Cancer
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Intervention(s)
Drug: cyclosporine
Drug: irinotecan hydrochloride
Drug: phenobarbital
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
CDR0000064707
NCI-2012-02242
NCI-T95-0100H
UCCRC-8033
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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