Status:

COMPLETED

Sequential ATRA Then IL-2 for Modulation of Dendritic Cells and Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Conditions:

Kidney Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Tretinoin may help cells that are involved in the body's immune response to work better. Interleukin-2 may stimulate the white blood cells to kill kidney cancer cells. Giving tretinoin toge...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the ratio of dendritic cells (DC) to circulating immature cells (ImC) before and after treatment with 3 different doses of tretinoin in patients with stage IV renal c...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histologically confirmed renal cell cancer
  • Stage IV disease
  • Histology with clear cell component
  • Metastatic OR incompletely resected disease
  • Non-measurable disease allowed
  • Underwent complete or partial nephrectomy more than 90 days ago
  • No unresected primary cancer
  • No more than 2 of the following adverse factors:
  • Hemoglobin \< 10.0 g/dL
  • Corrected calcium \> upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Lactic dehydrogenase \> 1.5 times ULN
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 2
  • Brain metastasis allowed provided more than 90 days of clinical and radiologic stability after the end of its active treatment
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Age
  • Over 18
  • Performance status
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • ECOG 0-2
  • Life expectancy
  • Not specified
  • Hematopoietic
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Hepatic
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) \< 3 times normal
  • Bilirubin \< 2 times normal
  • Renal
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Creatinine clearance \> 40 mL/min
  • Cardiovascular
  • None of the following cardiovascular conditions within the past year:
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Unstable angina
  • New York Heart Association class II-IV congestive heart failure
  • Serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication
  • Class II-IV peripheral vascular disease within the past year
  • Other clinically significant cardiovascular disease
  • Immunologic
  • No history of immunodeficiency disease
  • No HIV infection
  • No ongoing serious infection
  • Other
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use two methods of effective contraception during and for 1 month (for women) or 6 months (for men) after study treatment
  • Other prior malignancy allowed provided there is no evidence of active disease
  • No other medical contraindication to tretinoin or interleukin-2
  • No serious non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • Biologic therapy
  • At least 60 days since prior immunotherapy
  • Chemotherapy
  • At least 60 days since prior cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • Endocrine therapy
  • See Radiotherapy
  • No prior corticosteroids at \> physiologic replacement doses for \> 3 days within the past 90 days
  • Concurrent tamoxifen, toremifene, megestrol, or gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists allowed
  • Concurrent inhaled steroids allowed
  • Radiotherapy
  • More than 7 days since prior external-beam radiotherapy
  • No steroid requirement during radiotherapy
  • Surgery
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 30 days since other prior debulking surgery
  • Other
  • Prior adjuvant therapy for resected, synchronous stage IV disease allowed
  • Prior adjuvant therapy allowed
  • Study therapy is not to be used as adjuvant therapy for completely resected late (\> 1 year until identification) solitary site of disease metastasis or non-metastatic disease
  • No prior participation in this clinical study
  • At least 60 days since other prior anticancer drugs
  • Concurrent seizure medication allowed

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    August 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    July 1 2013

    Estimated Enrollment :

    18 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00100906

    Start Date

    August 1 2004

    End Date

    July 1 2013

    Last Update

    August 16 2013

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    H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

    Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612-9497