Octreotide Compared With Loperamide Hydrochloride for Chemotherapy-Related Diarrhea in Patients With Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer, Diarrhea
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Colorectal Cancer focused on measuring colon cancer, rectal cancer, diarrhea
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed colorectal carcinoma At least grade 2 diarrhea as a consequence of chemotherapy PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified Other: Concurrent enrollment into SWOG-9420 protocol allowed No sensitivity to octreotide acetate or loperamide hydrochloride Eligible if less than 24 hours since prior loperamide or octreotide and no resolution of diarrhea Not pregnant or lactating Effective contraception required of fertile patients Not HIV positive No idiopathic ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, acute stool culture positive bacterial colitis, pseudomembranous colitis, short bowel syndrome, enteroenteric fistulae, chronic pancreatitis, ischemic bowel disease, or gastrointestinal disorders known to cause diarrhea Absence of definitive culture results required PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: Prior chemotherapy with a fluoropyrimidine alone or in combination with an accepted modulating agent (leucovorin, levamisole, methotrexate, interferon, PALA, or hydroxyurea) required Prior chemotherapy with uracil mustard and tegafur (UFT) allowed No concurrent chemotherapy allowed during study Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No whole pelvic or abdominal radiation therapy allowed Surgery: No colectomy, coloanal anastamosis, abdominoperineal resection, or colostomy allowed Other: No antidiarrheal agents (e.g., diphenoxylate hydrochloride, elixir paregoric, opium tincture or tincture of belladonna, or kaolin) during study No cyclosporine allowed
Sites / Locations
- University of California San Diego Cancer Center
- UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute
- CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center
- University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Center
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
- Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
- University of Minnesota Cancer Center
- Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
- CCOP - Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center
- CCOP - North Shore University Hospital
- North Shore University Hospital
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
- Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
- CCOP - Syracuse Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York, P.C.
- State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- CCOP - Southeast Cancer Control Consortium
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
- Rhode Island Hospital
- Medical University of South Carolina
- University of Tennessee, Memphis Cancer Center
- Vermont Cancer Center
- MBCCOP - Massey Cancer Center