Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Chemotherapy With Floxuridine and Dexamethasone in Combination With … (NCT03366155) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedPhase 2
Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump Chemotherapy With Floxuridine and Dexamethasone in Combination With Systemic Chemotherapy for Patients With Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Liver
United States24 participantsStarted 2019-06-24
Plain-language summary
Background:
Many people with colorectal cancer get liver metastases. Standard treatment for this is a combination of chemotherapy drugs. Directing the chemotherapy to the liver may be effective. A device that does this a pump that delivers drugs over 2 weeks at constant rate into the hepatic artery. The person s body temperature causes the drug to flow from the pump. Researchers want to see if this helps people with colorectal metastases to the liver.
Objective:
To study the effectiveness of a hepatic artery infusion pump at treating colorectal metastases to the liver.
Eligibility:
Adults at least 18 years old with colorectal metastases to the liver
Design:
Participants will be screened with:
Medical history
Physical exam
Heart, blood, and urine tests
Scans
Participants will stay in the hospital a few days. A small plastic tube (catheter) will be inserted in an artery into the liver. The catheter will be attached to the pump. That will lie under the skin on the abdomen. It will be small and participants will be able to feel it.
Participants will get treatment in 28-day cycles.
Every Day 1, they will have physical exam, symptom review, and blood tests.
Every 2 weeks, they will come to the clinic to get chemotherapy by a catheter or port.
Every 12 weeks, they will have a scan.
Tissue samples may be taken during the study.
When they finish the drug, participants may have the pump removed. They will repeat the Day 1 tests. They will be called every 6 months to see how they are doing.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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* INCLUSION CRITERIA:
* Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of colorectal adenocarcinoma.
* Patients must have measurable liver metastatic disease.
* Patients must have progressed on, been intolerant of or have residual disease after oxaliplatin- or irinotecan-containing, fluorouracil-based, chemotherapeutic regimen.
* Age greater than or equal to 18 years.
* ECOG performance status less than or equal to 1
* Patients must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
* leukocytes \> 3,000/mcL
* absolute neutrophil count \> 1,500/mcL
* platelets \> 90,000/mcL
* total bilirubin \< 1.5 X institutional upper limit of normal
* AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) \< 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal
* creatinine within normal institutional limits OR eGFR within normal as predicted by the CKD-EPI equation \> 60 mL/min/1.73 m2.
* The hepatic artery infusion pump chemotherapy has potential teratogenic and/or abortifacient effects. For this reason, women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation and after completion of study treatment : 3 months after the last study drug for men; 6 months after the last study drug for women. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immed…
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