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Melanoma (Skin)Phase 3NCT00003027

Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Interleukin-2 and Interferon Alfa in Treating Patients With Metastatic Melanoma

A Phase 3 study testing aldesleukin, filgrastim and recombinant interferon alfa in people with Melanoma (Skin), run by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group at 94 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Interleukin-2 may stimulate a person's white blood cells to kill melanoma cells. Interferon alfa may interfere with the growth of tumor cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 120 years
Conditions the study is for
Melanoma (Skin)
What is being tested?
aldesleukin, filgrastim and recombinant interferon alfa
How many people
482 participants
Where
94 sitesUnited States
Study dates
13 Nov 1997to Jul 2007
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 120 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed surgically incurable metastatic malignant melanoma
  • Measurable disease
  • No active brain metastases or edema
  • No leptomeningeal disease
  • No ocular melanoma

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin at least 9 g/dL

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
  • SGOT less than 3 times the upper limit of normal unless due to liver metastases

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL OR
  • Creatinine clearance at least 75 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

  • No congestive heart failure
  • No symptoms of coronary artery disease
  • No serious cardiac arrhythmias
  • No prior myocardial infarction on EKG
  • Normal cardiac stress test required for the following:
  • Over 50 years of age
  • Abnormal EKG
  • Prior history of cardiac disease

Pulmonary:

  • No symptomatic pulmonary disease
  • FEV1 greater than 2.0 L OR at least 75% predicted if over 50 years of age or with history of pulmonary symptoms

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No significant infection
  • HIV negative
  • No other prior malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
  • No organ allografts
  • No significant disease other than malignancy
  • No seizure disorder

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • No prior interleukin-2 therapy for metastatic disease
  • At least 4 weeks since prior vaccine therapy
  • At least 4 weeks since prior adjuvant immunotherapy

Chemotherapy:

  • No prior chemotherapy for disease

Endocrine therapy:

  • No concurrent corticosteroids

Radiotherapy:

  • No prior radiation therapy to measurable disease site unless disease is clearly progressive
  • At least 4 weeks since prior radiation therapy for local control or palliation and recovered

Surgery:

  • Recovered from prior surgery

Other:

  • No prior systemic therapy for metastatic disease
  • At least 3 months since definitive therapy for brain metastases

Trial locations and contacts

94 sites in 1 country.

94 sites in 1 country

United States94 sites

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Albany

    Albany, New York, 12208

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Albuquerque

    Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108-5138

  • MBCCOP - University of New Mexico HSC

    Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Ann Arbor

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105

  • CCOP - Ann Arbor Regional

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106

  • University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-0912

  • CCOP - Atlanta Regional

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30342-1701

  • CCOP - Montana Cancer Consortium

    Billings, Montana, 59101

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Biloxi

    Biloxi, Mississippi, 39531-2410

  • Boston Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02118

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Charleston

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29401-5799

  • Medical University of South Carolina

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425-0721

  • MBCCOP - University of Illinois at Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, 60612-7323

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Westside Hospital)

    Chicago, Illinois, 60612

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Cincinnati

    Cincinnati, Ohio, 45220-2288

  • Barrett Cancer Center, The University Hospital

    Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267-0501

  • Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195

  • CCOP - Columbus

    Columbus, Ohio, 43206

  • Simmons Cancer Center - Dallas

    Dallas, Texas, 75235-8852

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Dayton

    Dayton, Ohio, 45428

  • CCOP - Central Illinois

    Decatur, Illinois, 62526

  • University of Colorado Cancer Center

    Denver, Colorado, 80010

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Denver

    Denver, Colorado, 80220

  • Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute

    Detroit, Michigan, 48201-1379

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Detroit

    Detroit, Michigan, 48201-1932

  • Henry Ford Hospital

    Detroit, Michigan, 48202

  • Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope

    Duarte, California, 91010-3000

  • CCOP - Duluth

    Duluth, Minnesota, 55805

  • Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center

    Fort Gordon, Georgia, 30905-5650

  • Brooke Army Medical Center

    Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 78234-6200

  • University of Texas Medical Branch

    Galveston, Texas, 77555-0565

  • CCOP - Greenville

    Greenville, South Carolina, 29615

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Hines (Hines Junior VA Hospital)

    Hines, Illinois, 60141

  • Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

    Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813-2424

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Houston

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

    Jackson, Mississippi, 39216-4505

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Jackson

    Jackson, Mississippi, 39216

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Boston (Jamaica Plain)

    Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 02130

  • University of Kansas Medical Center

    Kansas City, Kansas, 66160-7353

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Kansas City

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64128

  • CCOP - Kansas City

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64131

  • Keesler Medical Center - Keesler AFB

    Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, 39534-2576

  • CCOP - Dayton

    Kettering, Ohio, 45429

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Lexington

    Lexington, Kentucky, 40502-2236

  • Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky

    Lexington, Kentucky, 40536-0084

  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

    Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Little Rock (McClellan)

    Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205

  • USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital

    Los Angeles, California, 90033-0804

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - West Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, 90073

  • Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA

    Los Angeles, California, 90095-1781

  • Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic - Martinez

    Martinez, California, 94553

  • Loyola University Medical Center

    Maywood, Illinois, 60153

  • MBCCOP - Gulf Coast

    Mobile, Alabama, 36688

  • MBCCOP - LSU Health Sciences Center

    New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112

  • Tulane University School of Medicine

    New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112

  • Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10032

  • CCOP - Bay Area Tumor Institute

    Oakland, California, 94609-3305

  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Oklahoma City

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104

  • Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Orange, California, 92868

  • CCOP - Greater Phoenix

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85006-2726

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Phoenix (Carl T. Hayden)

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85012

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Portland

    Portland, Oregon, 97207

  • CCOP - Columbia River Program

    Portland, Oregon, 97225

  • OHSU Cancer Institute

    Portland, Oregon, 97239

  • University of Rochester Medical Center

    Rochester, New York, 14642

  • University of California Davis Medical Center

    Sacramento, California, 95817

  • Huntsman Cancer Institute

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112-5550

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Salt Lake City

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84148

  • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

    San Antonio, Texas, 78284-7845

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Antonio (Murphy)

    San Antonio, Texas, 78284

  • UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute

    San Francisco, California, 94143-0128

  • CCOP - Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital

    Santa Rosa, California, 95403

  • CCOP - Virginia Mason Research Center

    Seattle, Washington, 98101

  • Swedish Cancer Institute

    Seattle, Washington, 98104

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Seattle

    Seattle, Washington, 98108

  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

    Shreveport, Louisiana, 71130-3932

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Shreveport

    Shreveport, Louisiana, 71130

  • Providence Hospital - Southfield

    Southfield, Michigan, 48075-9975

  • CCOP - Upstate Carolina

    Spartanburg, South Carolina, 29303

  • CCOP - Cancer Research for the Ozarks

    Springfield, Missouri, 65807

  • St. Louis University Health Sciences Center

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

  • CCOP - St. Louis-Cape Girardeau

    St Louis, Missouri, 63141

  • CCOP - Northwest

    Tacoma, Washington, 98405-0986

  • Madigan Army Medical Center

    Tacoma, Washington, 98431-5048

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Temple

    Temple, Texas, 76504

  • CCOP - Scott and White Hospital

    Temple, Texas, 76508

  • CCOP - Toledo Community Hospital Oncology Program

    Toledo, Ohio, 43623-3456

  • David Grant Medical Center

    Travis Air Force Base, California, 94535

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Tucson

    Tucson, Arizona, 85723

  • Arizona Cancer Center

    Tucson, Arizona, 85724

  • CCOP - Wichita

    Wichita, Kansas, 67214-3882

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Wichita

    Wichita, Kansas, 67218

  • CCOP - Southeast Cancer Control Consortium

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27104-4241

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About this study

Official title: A Randomized Phase III Trial of Concurrent Biochemotherapy With Cisplatin, Vinblastine, Dacarbazine, IL-2 and Interferon A-2B Versus Cisplatin, Vinblastine, Dacarbazine Alone in Patients With Metastatic Malignant Melanoma

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Interleukin-2 may stimulate a person's white blood cells to kill melanoma cells. Interferon alfa may interfere with the growth of tumor cells. It is not yet known whether combination chemotherapy plus interleukin-2 and interferon alfa is more effective than combination chemotherapy alone for metastatic melanoma.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare combination chemotherapy with or without interleukin-2 and interferon alfa in treating patients who have metastatic melanoma that cannot be treated by surgery.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare response rate, duration of response, and survival rate in patients with metastatic malignant melanoma treated with cisplatin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine with or without interleukin-2 and interferon alfa-2b.
  • Determine the toxic effects of these regimens in this patient population.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to performance status (0 vs 1), prior interferon (yes vs no), and number of involved sites. Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 30 minutes daily immediately followed by vinblastine IV on days 1-4. Patients also receive dacarbazine IV over 60 minutes on day 1 following vinblastine.
  • Arm II: Patients receive treatment as in arm I. Patients also receive interleukin 2 (IL-2) IV continuously on days 1-4 and interferon alfa-2b subcutaneously (SC) daily before IL-2 on days 1-4 and after IL-2 on day 5, followed by filgrastim (G-CSF) (SC) daily on days 7-16.

Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed at 6 weeks, every 3 months for 18 months, every 6 months for 18 months, and then annually for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 482 patients will be accrued for this study within 3.5 years.

Conditions
Melanoma (Skin)
Being tested
aldesleukin, filgrastim, recombinant interferon alfa, cisplatin, dacarbazine
Keywords
stage IV melanoma
Medical subject headings
Melanoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • aldesleukinBiological

  • filgrastimBiological

  • recombinant interferon alfaBiological

  • cisplatinDrug

  • dacarbazineDrug

  • vinblastineDrug

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Overall survival

Secondary outcomes (3)

  1. Response rate (complete and partial response)

  2. Durable complete response rate

  3. Response duration

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted27 Jan 2003 (estimated)
  2. Study start13 Nov 1997
  3. Primary completionJul 2007

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Enrolment
482 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00003027
Sponsor's protocol ID
CDR0000065617
Other IDs
E3695, CLB-509802, SWOG-E3695
Status last verified
Jun 2023
First submitted
1 Nov 1999
Last updated
22 Jun 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Atkins MB, Hsu J, Lee S, Cohen GI, Flaherty LE, Sosman JA, Sondak VK, Kirkwood JM; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Phase III trial comparing concurrent biochemotherapy with cisplatin, vinblastine, dacarbazine, interleukin-2, and interferon alfa-2b with cisplatin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine alone in patients with metastatic malignant melanoma (E3695): a trial coordinated by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Dec 10;26(35):5748-54. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.17.5448. Epub 2008 Nov 10.

    PubMed 19001327

  • Atkins MB, Lee S, Flaherty LE: A prospective randomized phase III trial of concurrent biochemotherapy (BCT) with cisplatin, vinblastine, dacarbazine (CVD), IL-2 and interferon alpha-2b (IFN) versus CVD alone in patients with metastatic melanoma (E3695): an ECOG-coordinated intergroup trial. [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-2847, 2003.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing aldesleukin, filgrastim and recombinant interferon alfa in people with Melanoma (Skin), run by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group at 94 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 22 Jun 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 94 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Overall survival. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00003027, which also lists 2 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 22 Jun 2023.

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