Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for ABI-007 in Treating Patients With Inoperable Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Melanoma

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: ABI-007 in Treating Patients With Inoperable Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Melanoma

Official Title: An Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase II Trial of ABI-007 (A Cremophor® -Free, Protein Stabilized, Nanoparticle Paclitaxel) in Previously Treated Patients With Metastatic Melanoma

Study ID: NCT00081042

Conditions

Melanoma (Skin)

Interventions

paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation

Study Description

Brief Summary: RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ABI-007, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well ABI-007 works in treating patients with inoperable (unresectable) locally recurrent or metastatic melanoma.

Detailed Description: OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the antitumor activity of ABI-007 in patients with inoperable locally recurrent or metastatic melanoma. * Determine the safety and tolerability of this drug in these patients. Secondary * Determine the time to disease progression, in terms of the rate and duration of response or stable disease, in patients treated with this drug. * Determine the survival of patients treated with this drug. * Determine the effects of this drug on biomarkers of melanoma in these patients. * Correlate biomarker levels with response in patients treated with this drug. OUTLINE: This is an open-label, multicenter study. Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 treatment cohorts according to prior cytotoxic chemotherapy (previously treated vs chemotherapy-naïve). * Cohort I (previously treated): Patients receive ABI-007 IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15. * Cohort II (chemotherapy-naïve): Patients receive a higher dose of ABI-007 as in cohort I. In both cohorts, courses repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients are followed monthly for 6 months and then every 3 months thereafter. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 24-70 patients (12-35 per cohort) will be accrued for this study.