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Surgery With or Without Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma



Surgery With or Without Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma

For Condition: adult soft tissue sarcoma,clear cell sarcoma of the kidney,ovarian sarcoma,Pheochromocytoma,uterine sarcoma
Status: No longer recruiting
Sponsor(s): EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Cooperative Group , National Cancer Institute of Canada
Synopsis: RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether giving chemotherapy after surgery is more effective than surgery alone in treating soft tissue sarcoma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of surgery with or without chemotherapy in treating patients who have soft tissue sarcoma.
Details: OBJECTIVES: - Compare the local disease control, overall survival, and relapse-free survival in patients with high-grade soft tissue sarcoma treated with adjuvant high-dose doxorubicin and ifosfamide plus filgrastim (G-CSF) vs no adjuvant chemotherapy and G-CSF after definitive surgery. - Compare the toxicity and morbidity of these regimens in these patients. OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to center, site of primary tumor (extremity vs trunk, including shoulder, pelvic girdle, head, or neck vs central, including intrathoracic, visceral, uterine, or retroperitoneal), size of primary tumor (less than 5 cm vs 5 cm or greater in largest diameter), postoperative radiotherapy (yes vs no), and isolated limb perfusion therapy (yes vs no). Some patients undergo isolated limb perfusion therapy with cytotoxics and/or cytokines. No more than 8 weeks after biopsy or inadequate surgery, patients undergo definitive surgery. Patients with complete resection undergo radiotherapy assessment and then randomization. Patients with incomplete or marginal resection (except for central lesions) undergo re-excision and, in the absence of macroscopic disease, assessment for postoperative radiotherapy followed by randomization. - Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. - Arm I: Patients receive no adjuvant chemotherapy or filgrastim (G-CSF). Beginning within 6 weeks after surgery, eligible patients undergo radiotherapy as outlined below. - Arm II: Beginning within 4 weeks after surgery, patients receive high-dose doxorubicin IV over 20 minutes followed by ifosfamide IV over 24 hours and G-CSF subcutaneously daily beginning 24 hours after completion of ifosfamide infusion and continuing for 10 days. Treatment continues every 3 weeks for 5 courses. Beginning within 6 weeks after completion of chemotherapy, eligible patients undergo radiotherapy as outlined below. - Radiotherapy: Patients with incomplete or marginal resection undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 6-6.6 weeks. Patients with complete microscopic resection undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 5 weeks followed by boost radiotherapy 5 days a week for 1 week. Patients are followed every 2 months for 1 year, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then annually thereafter. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 350 patients will be accrued for this study within 3.5 years.
Eligibility:
Study Type:
  Interventional, Treatment
Minimum Age/Maximum Age: 16 Years/69 Years
Genders: Both
Protocol Entry Criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: - Histologically proven soft tissue sarcoma that is amenable to definitive surgery no more than 8 weeks after biopsy or inadequate surgery - Eligible subtypes: - Alveolar soft part sarcoma - Angiosarcoma - Fibrosarcoma - Leiomyosarcoma - Malignant fibrous histiocytoma - Liposarcoma (round cell and pleomorphic) - Miscellaneous sarcoma (including pelvic mixed mesodermal tumors) - Malignant paraganglioma - Neurogenic sarcoma - Rhabdomyosarcoma - Synovial sarcoma - Unclassifiable sarcoma - Ineligible subtypes: - Chondrosarcoma - Dermatofibrosarcoma - Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma - Ewing's sarcoma - Kaposi's sarcoma - Liposarcoma (myxoid and well differentiated) - Malignant mesothelioma - Neuroblastoma - Osteosarcoma - Confirmed high-grade tumor (i.e., Trojani Grade II or III) - No metastases on staging with chest x-ray and thoracic CT scan - No regional lymph node involvement - Locally recurrent disease allowed - Interval of 3 months or more between definitive surgery and recurrence PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: - 16 to 69 Performance status: - WHO 0-1 Life expectancy: - Not specified Hematopoietic: - WBC greater than 4,000/mm^3 - Platelet count greater than 120,000/mm^3 - No bleeding disorders Hepatic: - Bilirubin no greater than 1.25 times normal - No severe hepatic dysfunction Renal: - Creatinine less than 1.6 mg/dL OR - Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min Cardiovascular: - No clear history of angina - No documented myocardial infarction - No existing cardiac failure Other: - No serious infection - No other malignancy except adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: - Not specified Chemotherapy: - No prior systemic chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: - Not specified Radiotherapy: - No prior radiotherapy to affected area Surgery: - See Disease Characteristics
Total Enrollment: 

Location and Contact Information:

Overall Study Official:
PenellaWoll,  ,  Weston Park Hospital

Cancer Care Ontario-London Regional Cancer Centre
London,  Ontario,  N6A 4L6
Canada
 

Middlesex Hospital- Meyerstein Institute
London,  England,  WIT 3AA
United Kingdom
 

Saint John Regional Hospital
Saint John,  New Brunswick,  E2L 4L2
Canada
 

Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2N 4N2
Canada
 

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Lausanne,  ,  CH-1011
Switzerland
 

Cross Cancer Institute
Edmonton,  Alberta,  T6G 1Z2
Canada
 

Newcastle General Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne,  England,  NE4 6BE
United Kingdom
 

Institut Gustave Roussy
Villejuif,  ,  F-94805
France
 

Hospital de la Santa Cruz I Sant Pau
Barcelona,  ,  08025
Spain
 

Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori
Milano (Milan),  ,  20133
Italy
 

Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Graz,  ,  A-8010
Austria
 

Daniel Den Hoed Cancer Center at Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam,  ,  3075 EA
Netherlands
 

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital
Montreal,  Quebec,  H1T 2M4
Canada
 

Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
Nottingham,  England,  NG5 1PB
United Kingdom
 

Kantonsspital - St. Gallen
St. Gallen,  ,  CH-9007
Switzerland
 

Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen
Edegem,  ,  B-2650
Belgium
 

Mount Sinai Hospital - Toronto
Toronto,  Ontario,  M5G 1X5
Canada
 

Inselspital, Bern
BERN,  ,  CH-3010
Switzerland
 

Eberhard Karls Universitaet
Tuebingen,  ,  D-72076
Germany
 

Cancer Care Ontario-Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre
Hamilton,  Ontario,  L8V 5C2
Canada
 

Universitaets-Krankenhaus Eppendorf
Hamburg,  ,  D-20246
Germany
 

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Amsterdam,  ,  1066 CX
Netherlands
 

Weston Park Hospital
Sheffield,  England,  S1O 2SJ
United Kingdom
 

Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre
Ottawa,  Ontario,  K1H 1C4
Canada
 

McGill University
Montreal,  Quebec,  H2W 1S6
Canada
 

Hopital Universitaire Erasme
Brussels,  ,  1070
Belgium
 

Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Francisco Gentil - Centro de Lisboa
Lisbon,  ,  1099-023 Codex
Portugal
 

Aarhus Kommunehospital
Aarhus,  ,  DK-8000
Denmark
 

Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen
Groningen,  ,  9713 EZ
Netherlands
 

Robert Roessle Klinik
Berlin,  ,  D-13122
Germany
 

Christie Hospital N.H.S. Trust
Manchester,  England,  M20 4BX
United Kingdom
 

Royal Marsden NHS Trust - London
London,  England,  SW3 6JJ
United Kingdom
 

St. James's Hospital
Leeds,  England,  LS9 7TF
United Kingdom
 

U.Z. Gasthuisberg
Leuven,  ,  B-3000
Belgium
 

Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen,  ,  2100
Denmark
 

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Exeter,  England,  EX2 5DW
United Kingdom
 

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Brussels,  ,  1200
Belgium
 

Centre Leon Berard
Lyon,  ,  69373
France
 

Institut Jules Bordet
Brussels,  ,  1000
Belgium
 

CHU de la Timone
Marseille,  ,  13385
France
 

Klinikum Grosshadern
Munich,  ,  D-81377
Germany
 

British Columbia Cancer Agency - Vancouver Island Cancer Centre
Victoria,  British Columbia,  V8R 6V5
Canada
 

National Cancer Institute - Bratislava
Bratislava,  ,  833 10
Slovakia
 

Universitaetsklinikum Essen
ESSEN,  ,  D-45122
Germany
 

CancerCare Manitoba
Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  R3E 0V9
Canada
 


Additional Information:
Study ID Numbers:
  CDR0000064132;  EORTC-62931,CAN-NCIC-SR3
Study Start Date: 
Record last reviewed: January 2004
Additional information available at: clinicaltrials.gov
Clinicaltrials.gov Reference link: NCT00002641

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