The purpose of this Phase II study will assess the effectiveness of the combination of oral cyclophosphamide and sirolimus in sarcoma patients with relapsed or widespread disease who cannot be cured by surgery, radiation or conventional chemotherapy.
The purpose of this Phase II study you are being asked to participate in will assess the effectiveness of the combination of oral cyclophosphamide and sirolimus in sarcoma patients with relapsed or widespread disease who cannot be cured by surgery, radiation or conventional chemotherapy. Malignant connective tissue tumors of soft tissue and bone (sarcomas) are highly aggressive cancers. There are few available chemotherapy treatments that are active in treating sarcomas. Sarcomas that have metastasized (spread throughout the body) are usually fatal. There is a great need to identify new active drugs to treat metastatic or relapsed sarcomas. Low dose oral daily cyclophosphamide is an established chemotherapy regimen for treatment of malignant and autoimmune disease and is generally well tolerated. Sirolimus is approved for prevention of kidney rejection after transplantation. Temsirolimus, a form of sirolimus, is approved for the treatment of kidney cancer. Sirolimus combined with cyclophosphamide in animal models of sarcoma resulted in significant anti-tumor activity. Tumor and blood samples will be studied to look for known protein targets of the medication to help learn why certain subjects have a favorable response to the treatment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
49
The dose of cyclophosphamide will start at 200 mg (4 tablets) per day on day 1 and will be taken for 7 days every other week of a 28 day cycle. Subjects will take 12 mg (12 tablets) of sirolimus on day 1 of treatment as a loading dose followed by 4 mg (4 tablets) daily continuously
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Number of Patients Alive Without Disease Progression
Patients who were evaluable for response to therapy, alive and without evidence of sarcoma disease progression. Target lesions followed were lesions that had progressed by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Disease progression is defined as a greater than or equal to 25% increase in the sum of the product of target lesions, or unequivocal progression of non-target lesions or the appearance of new tumor lesions \>10mm.
Time frame: 6 months
Median Overall Survival Time
Median overall duration of survival.
Time frame: 48 weeks
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