Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Prednisone in Treating Patients With Recurrent and/or Metastatic Kidney Cancer

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Kidney Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. Prednisone may help to relieve symptoms in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic kidney cancer. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy consisting of vinorelbine and estramustine with or without prednisone in treating patients who have recurrent and/or metastatic kidney cancer.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00003584
Run by
University of New Mexico
People needed
35
Starts
1998-07-01
Expected to finish
2000-12-01
Last updated by the study team
2016-05-12

Who can join

Age: any, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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