Ixabepilone in Treating Patients With Advanced Cisplatin-Refractory Germ Cell Tumors

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors, Extragonadal Germ Cell Tumor, Ovarian Cancer, Testicular Germ Cell Tumor

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ixabepilone, 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 ixabepilone works in treating patients with metastatic germ cell tumors that are refractory to cisplatin.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00070096
Run by
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
People needed
29
Starts
2003-08-01
Expected to finish
2007-06-01
Last updated by the study team
2013-06-24

Who can join

Age: 16 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

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