RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of two different regimens of Ro 31-7453 in treating patients who have recurrent or refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.
OBJECTIVES: * Compare the objective disease rate of patients with recurrent or refractory metastatic colorectal cancer treated with two dose schedules of Ro 31-7453. * Compare the safety and tolerability of these regimens in these patients. * Compare the response duration in patients treated with these regimens. * Compare the time to progression and time to treatment failure in patients treated with these regimens. * Determine the pharmacokinetic profiles of Ro 31-7453 and its major metabolites in these patients. * Compare the overall survival of patients treated with these regimens. OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open label, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. * Arm I: Patients receive oral Ro 31-7453 twice daily on days 1-4. Treatment repeats every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. * Arm II: Patients receive oral Ro 31-7453 twice daily on days 1-14. Treatment repeats every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients are followed at 28 days and then every 3 months. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 160 patients (49 per treatment arm plus 61 additional patients in the arm determined to be most effective) will be accrued for this study within 1 year.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
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