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The standard initial treatment for patients with advanced colorectal cancer (ACC) not amenable for surgical resection is palliative 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-based chemotherapy. However, response rates are low and prognosis remains poor, with median survival times about one year. Until recently,
131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) is an active therapy in patients with widely metastatic, treatment-resistant neuroblastoma, where response rates are 20-40% at doses (> 15mCi/kg) requiring stem cell rescue. Irinotecan is a topoisomerase I inhibitor with single-agent chemotherapeutic activity
CZ48 is an analog of the topoisomerase I inhibitor Camptothecin (CPT). CPT is an alkaloid extracted from the Chinese tree, Camptotheca acuminata. Only the S isomer (the natural form) is biologically active. The intact E lactone ring, which tends to be preserved in an acid environment, is essential
KD018 is an oral form of a spray dried aqueous extract composed of four main herbs, which have been used in the Orient for nearly 2000 years for a variety of GI symptoms including diarrhea and nausea/vomiting. Extensive pre-clinical research has been done with Chinese herbal medicine, and studies
Objectives : The objectives of this study are to assess the feasibility, to determine the maximum tolerated dose, and to assess the toxicities of intraperitoneally administered CPT-11 in gastric cancer patients with peritoneal seeding.
Methods : This is open-labeled, non-randomized phase I study in
Topotecan is a semisynthetic analogue of camptothecin. Like its parent compound camptothecin, topotecan is a specific inhibitor of topoisomerase-I. Topoisomerase-I facilitates DNA replication by inducing reversible single strand breaks thereby relieving the torsional strain which occurs ahead of the
Irinotecan (CPT-11) is a promising camptothecin analogue with activity in solid tumors. In Phase I studies using short intravenous infusion schedules, the predominant drug toxicities have been gastrointestinal, such as diarrhea, and myelosuppression. In animal studies, prolonged infusion schedules