Topotecan in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Cancer of the Uterus
Sarcoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Sarcoma focused on measuring recurrent uterine sarcoma, uterine carcinosarcoma
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven recurrent or refractory carcinosarcoma (mixed mesodermal tumors) of the uterus Measurable disease PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Not specified Performance Status: GOG 0-2 Life Expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) SGOT no greater than 3 times ULN Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 3 times ULN Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Creatinine clearance greater than 20 mL/min Other: No invasive malignancies within the past 5 years except nonmelanomatous skin cancer No significant infection PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: At least 3 weeks since prior biologic therapy Chemotherapy: At least 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy and recovered No prior topotecan or camptothecin therapy No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen (either single or combination chemotherapy) Endocrine therapy: At least 3 weeks since prior endocrine therapy Radiotherapy: At least 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered Surgery: Prior surgery allowed and recovered
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
- Community Hospital of Los Gatos
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
- Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
- Indiana University Cancer Center
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
- Radiation Oncology Branch
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- University of Minnesota Cancer Center
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
- CCOP - Kansas City
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Cancer Center of Albany Medical Center
- State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
- North Shore University Hospital
- State University of New York Health Sciences Center - Stony Brook
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
- Barrett Cancer Center, The University Hospital
- Ireland Cancer Center
- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
- Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital - Ohio State University
- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
- CCOP - Sooner State
- Abington Memorial Hospital
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- CCOP - MainLine Health
- CCOP - Upstate Carolina
- CCOP - Baptist Cancer Institute
- Brookview Research, Inc.
- Simmons Cancer Center - Dallas
- CCOP - Scott and White Hospital
- Fletcher Allen Health Care
- Cancer Center, University of Virginia HSC
- University of Washington Medical Center
- Tacoma General Hospital
- Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary