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Combination Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer That Have Not Responded to Hormone Therapy
This study is no longer recruiting patients.
Sponsored by: | Southwest Oncology Group
Cancer and Leukemia Group B
North Central Cancer Treatment Group
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Information provided by: | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
Purpose
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy and hormone therapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug and giving drugs in different ways may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether estramustine plus docetaxel is more effective than mitoxantrone plus prednisone for prostate cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of estramustine plus docetaxel with that of mitoxantrone plus prednisone in treating patients who have stage IV prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.
Condition | Treatment or Intervention | Phase |
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adenocarcinoma of the prostate stage IV prostate cancer recurrent prostate cancer |
Drug: docetaxel Drug: estramustine Drug: mitoxantrone Drug: prednisone Procedure: chemotherapy Procedure: endocrine therapy Procedure: hormone therapy Procedure: steroid therapy |
Phase III |
MedlinePlus related topics: Prostate Cancer
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment
Official Title: Phase III Randomized Study of Docetaxel and Estramustine Versus Mitoxantrone and Prednisone in Patients With Hormone-Refractory, Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to disease status (measurable or evaluable disease progression vs rising PSA only), NCI Common Toxicity Criteria version 2.X pain scale (grade 2 or greater vs less than 2), and SWOG performance status (0-1 vs 2-3). Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms.
Quality of life is assessed at baseline, after courses 4 and 8, and then at 1 year after randomization.
Patients are followed every 6 months for 2 years and then annually for 1 year.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 620 patients (310 per arm) will be accrued for this study within 3.5 years.
Eligibility
Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and above, Genders Eligible for Study: Both
Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age:
Performance status:
Life expectancy:
Hematopoietic:
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PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy:
Chemotherapy:
Endocrine therapy:
Radiotherapy:
Surgery:
Other:
Location Information
More Information
Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database
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