Combination Chemotherapy Plus Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Lung Cancer focused on measuring extensive stage small cell lung cancer
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven small cell lung cancer Good prognosis on the Manchester scale, with no more than 2 of the following high risk factors: Karnofsky less than 60% Hyponatremia (low sodium) Alkaline phosphatase at least 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) LDH greater than ULN No symptomatic CNS metastases requiring corticosteroids PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 to 60 Performance status: See Disease Characteristics Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Neutrophil count at least 2,000/mm3 Platelet count at least 125,000/mm3 Hepatic: See Disease Characteristics Bilirubin less than 1.25 times upper limit of normal (ULN) SGOT/SGPT less than 1.25 times ULN Renal: Creatinine less than ULN Cardiovascular: LVEF at least 50% No myocardial infarction within 5 years No uncontrolled cardiac disease Pulmonary: No severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Other: No neurological symptoms greater than grade 2 No severe psychoses No other concurrent medical problems No active infection HIV negative No allergy to E. coli derived products No prior malignancy within 5 years except basal cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or lung or respiratory cancer in remission Not pregnant or nursing PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: See Disease Characteristics No prior antineoplastic therapy
Sites / Locations
- CHR de Besancon - Hopital Saint-Jacques
- Institut Bergonie
- CMC Bligny
- Centre de Lute Contre le Cancer,Georges-Francois Leclerc
- CHR de Grenoble - La Tronche
- Centre Leon Berard
- Hopital Louis Pradel
- Institut J. Paoli and I. Calmettes
- Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve
- Centre Regional de Lutte Contre le Cancer - Centre Val d'Aurelle
- Centre Antoine Lacassagne
- Institut Curie - Section Medicale
- Hopital Saint Antoine
- Hopital Tenon
- Hopital Jules Courmont - Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud
- Hopital Rene Dubos
- Institut Jean Godinot
- Centre Rene Huguenin
- Hopitaux Universitaire de Strasbourg
- Institut Claudius Regaud
- CHRU de Nancy - Hopitaux de Brabois
- Institut Gustave Roussy