| Inclusion Criteria: | Patients with a histologic diagnosis of primary peritoneal carcinoma or epithelial ovarian carcinoma, Stage III or IV, with either optimal or suboptimal residual disease following initial surgery. All patients must have had appropriate surgery for ovarian or peritoneal carcinoma with appropriate tissue available for histologic evaluation to confirm diagnosis and stage.
Patients with the following histologic epithelial cell types are eligible: Serous adenocarcinoma, endometrioid adenocarcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, clear cell adenocarcinoma, mixed epithelial carcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, malignant Brenner's Tumor or adenocarcinoma N.O.S.
Patients must have adequate: ANC greater than or equal to 1, 500/ul, equivalent to CTC grade 1. Platelet greater than or equal to 100,000/ul (CTC grade 0-1), Creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 x institutional ULN (CTC grade 1), Bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 x ULN (CTC grade 1), SGOT and alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to 2.5 x ULN (CTC grade 1), Neuropathy (sensory and motor) less than or equal to CTC grade 1.
Patients with a GOG performance status of 0, 1, or 2.
Patients who have signed an approved informed consent.
Patients must be entered no more than twelve weeks postoperatively.
Patients with unstable angina or those who have had a myocardial infarction within the past six months. Patients with evidence of abnormal cardiac conduction (e.g. bundle block, heart block) are eligible if there disease has been stable for past six months. |