Standard Therapy With or Without Surgery and Mitomycin C in Treating Patients With Advanced Limited Peritoneal Dissemination of Colon Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Colorectal Cancer focused on measuring mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon, stage III colon cancer, stage IV colon cancer
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically or cytologically confirmed colon adenocarcinoma meeting the following criteria:
- Newly diagnosed disease
- Advanced disease
- Confirmed synchronous or metachronous limited peritoneal disease dissemination
- No appendiceal or rectal cancer
- No signet ring cell type
Disease amenable to complete cytoreduction surgery as indicated by:
- Peritoneal Cancer Index (PCI) ≤ 20 by helical CT scan and/or staging laparoscopy
- No parenchymal hepatic metastases
- No clinical (jaundice), biochemical (abnormally elevated serum bilirubin and/or alkaline phosphatase), or radiological (by ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI) biliary obstruction
- No symptomatic malignant ascites requiring palliative paracentesis
- Small volume of disease in the gastro-hepatic ligament defined by a < 5 cm mass in the epigastric region on cross-sectional imaging
- No cross-sectional imaging findings indicative of multi-segmental (> 1 site) small bowel obstruction, small bowel loops matted together, or gross disease of the small bowel mesentery characterized by distortion, thickening, or loss of mesenteric vascular clarity
- No clinical or radiological evidence of hematogenous or distant nodal (retroperitoneal, pelvic, mediastinal, peri-portal, or peri-aortic) metastasis
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- ANC > 1,200/mm³
- WBC > 4,000/mm³
- Platelet count 150,000/mm³
INR ≤ 1.5
- Patients on therapeutic anticoagulant for unrelated medical condition such as atrial fibrillation or anti-thrombocyte treatment allowed provided treatment can be withheld for operation
- Total serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL (> 1.5 mg/dL for patients with Gilbert syndrome)
- Alkaline phosphatase < 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST < 1.5 times ULN
- Serum creatinine normal
- BUN normal
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
No history of severe congestive heart failure or severe pulmonary disease
- Patients who are status post-revascularization procedures with satisfactory cardiac function are eligible
- No acute myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- No significant history of a medical problem or co-morbidity (e.g., severe congestive heart failure or active ischemic heart disease) that would preclude a major abdominal operation
- No concurrent second malignancy requiring systemic therapy
- No psychiatric or addictive disorders, or other conditions that would preclude the patient from meeting the study requirements
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
No prior second-line systemic treatment for metastatic colon adenocarcinoma
- Patients who received prior adjuvant therapy for colon adenocarcinoma and/or prior first-line systemic therapy for metastatic colon adenocarcinoma are eligible
Sites / Locations
- St. Agnes Hospital Cancer Center
- Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Arm I
Arm II
Patients receive standard systemic therapy, at the discretion of patients' oncologist, comprising combinations of fluorouracil, leucovorin calcium, irinotecan hydrochloride, oxaliplatin, and/or capecitabine (including FOLFOX4, mFOLFOX6, CapeOx, or FOLFIRI), bevacizumab, or cetuximab. Treatment repeats in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with progressive disease may crossover to arm II.
Patients undergo cytoreduction surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal mitomycin C over 45-90 minutes. Beginning 8 weeks after surgery, patients receive standard systemic therapy as in arm I. Treatment with systemic therapy repeats for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.