Capecitabine and Streptozocin With or Without Cisplatin in Treating Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor, Islet Cell Tumor
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor focused on measuring pancreatic alpha cell adenoma, pancreatic alpha cell carcinoma, pancreatic beta islet cell adenoma, pancreatic beta islet cell carcinoma, pancreatic delta cell adenoma, pancreatic delta cell carcinoma, pancreatic G-cell adenoma, pancreatic G-cell carcinoma, gastrinoma, insulinoma, glucagonoma, pancreatic polypeptide tumor, somatostatinoma, metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor, recurrent gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor, regional gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor, islet cell carcinoma, recurrent islet cell carcinoma
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed unresectable, advanced, and/or metastatic disease meeting one of the following types:
- Gastroentero-neuroendocrine tumor of the foregut
- Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
- Neuroendocrine tumor of unknown primary
- Measurable disease, defined as at least 1 lesion that can be accurately measured in at least 1 dimension (the longest diameter) ≥ 20 mm by conventional CT scanning or ≥ 10 mm by spiral CT scan or MRI
- No bronchial neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) or other NETs where the primary site is situated in organs above the diaphragm (e.g., laryngeal and pharyngeal NETs)
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks
- Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
- WBC ≥ 3,000/mm³
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Bilirubin ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 5 times ULN
- AST and ALT ≤ 5 times ULN
- GFR ≥ 60 mL/min
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 3 months after completion of study therapy
- No other serious or uncontrolled illness that would preclude study participation
- No medical or psychiatric condition that would influence the ability to provide consent
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- At least 3 weeks since prior interferon therapy
- No prior systemic chemotherapy or chemotherapy administered as part of a chemo-embolization regimen, or for this condition
- No receptor-targeted radiolabeled therapy within the past 6 months
- No investigational agent within the past 4 weeks
- Prior and concurrent somatostatin analogues allowed provided symptoms are no longer controlled by this treatment or there is documented measurable disease progression on serial CT scans performed up to 6 months apart
No palliative radiotherapy involving lesions used to measure disease
- Palliative radiotherapy to regions not involved in measurement of disease allowed
- No other concurrent chemotherapy for this condition
Sites / Locations
- Basildon University Hospital
- Addenbrooke's Hospital
- Cookridge Hospital
- Leicester Royal Infirmary
- Aintree University Hospital
- UCL Cancer Institute
- St. Thomas' Hospital
- Mid Kent Oncology Centre at Maidstone Hospital
- Christie Hospital
- Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
- Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment at Newcastle General Hospital
- Oxford Radcliffe Hospital
- Royal Marsden - Surrey
- Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Edinburgh Cancer Centre at Western General Hospital
- Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
- Velindre Cancer Center at Velindre Hospital