Experience with substituting carboplatin for cisplatin is limited in advanced and recurrent cervix cancer and there has been no counterpart to GOG 158, which documented therapeutic equivalency of cisplatin/paclitaxel and carboplatin/paclitaxel for treatment of ovarian cancer, performed in a cervix cancer population.
This trial will be a prospective, randomized phase II pilot study. Consecutive patients of metastatic, recurrent or refractory carcinoma cervix enrolled in gynecology clinic at IRCH, AIIMS will be taken into study after taking informed consent. Patients will be randomized into two arms. Each arm shall contain 20 patients. The patients shall receive paclitaxel and carboplatin q3wk in first arm and paclitaxel and carboplatin q1 wk in second arm.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Paclitaxel 60 mg/ m2 administered in 250 ml normal saline over 1 hour, and carboplatin AUC 2 administered in 250 ml 5%D over 1 hour. Therapy repeated every weekly
Paclitaxel 175 mg/ m2 administered in 250 ml normal saline over 3 hours and carboplatin AUC 4-5 administered in 250 ml 5%D over 2 hours. Therapy repeated every three weekly
AIIMS
New Delhi, New Delhi, India
Time to progression (length of time from start of chemotherapy to evidence of cancer progression.
Time frame: 6 months
Response rate
Time frame: 6 months
Overall survival
Time frame: 6 months
Quality Of Life Questionnaire
Time frame: 6 months
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