Status:

COMPLETED

Elderly Dependent Patients With Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Lead Sponsor:

Groupe Francais De Pneumo-Cancerologie

Conditions:

Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

65+ years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is in non small-cell lung cancer stage IV et IIIB (T4 with pleural effusion) in elderly dependent patients with evaluation of the sequence Gemcitabine first line followed by ...

Detailed Description

A multicenter phase II trial,prospective,randomized,open,non comparative

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age \> 65
  • Comorbidities score, PS and frailty score according to table 1
  • No dementia, faecal or urinary incontinence, repeated falls
  • ADL = 0, IADL = 0-1
  • Life expectancy at least 12 weeks
  • Creatinin clearance \> = 30 ml/mn (according to Cockcrofts-Gault formula)
  • Competency to give written informed consent
  • Haematological functions as follows : neutrophiles count \> 1.5 x 109/l and platelets \> 100 x 109/l hemoglobin \> 9,5 g/dl - Hepatic function as follows : Bilirubin \< 1,25 LNS ASAT / ALAT \<5 x NAlcPh \<5 x N
  • PS \< 3
  • cerebral metastasis eligible if asymptomatic
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC
  • Stage IV/IIIB4 (T4 with pleural effusion)
  • No prior chemotherapy
  • relapses of previous NSCLC treated by surgery or radiotherapy are eligible, if the target is measurable out of initial radiotherapy field and if cytological or histological proof
  • At least one measurable target lesion by RECIST guidelines

Exclusion

  • symptomatic cerebral metastasis
  • Any severe comorbidity calculated by Charlson score according to table 1
  • ADL \> 0 and IADL \> 1- performance status \>2 (ECOG)
  • peripheral neuropathy grade 2 or more
  • dementia, repeated falls, urinary or faecal incontinence
  • contra-indication to corticosteroids
  • contra indication to a product of this study
  • unwilling or unable to comply with study requirements, for personal, family, sociologic, geographic or any other reason
  • inability of the subject to give written informed consent
  • lack of liberty following legal or administrative decision
  • hypersensitivity to polysorbate
  • hypersensitivity to erlotinib or any excipients of this product
  • unusual hereditary disorders, as galactosemia, deficit in lactase and syndrome of malabsorption in glucose or galactose
  • participation in concomitant clinical trial
  • bronchioloalveolar or neuroendocrine or composite carcinoma
  • superior vena cava syndrome

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2006

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

100 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00419042

Start Date

July 1 2006

End Date

March 1 2010

Last Update

October 1 2013

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Site 12

Aix-en-Provence, France, 13100

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Site 05

Bastia, France, 20200

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Site 22

Beauvais, France, 60021

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Site 43

Caen, France, 14000