Four Versus Six Cycles of Pemetrexed/Platinum for MPM

NCT02497053 | Unknown Phase 2

• 1 other identifier: Meso-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 70
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The prognosis of mesothelioma is generally poor. The median survival of patients with unresectable malignant mesothelioma ranges approximately between 6-12 months. Survival is poor because there is no curative treatment. Treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Recently multimodality treatment regimens have been reported to prolong survival. Other new therapeutic approaches include immunotherapy, gene therapy, hyperthermic chemoperfusion of the pleura and photodynamic therapy, but the results have not yet been completely validated. Even with the introduction of this new therapeutic protocol, the response does not exceed 41%, with a mean survival of 12 months. The current standard of care for unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma is pemetrexed/cisplatin. This regimen was compared to cisplatin alone in a study including 448 patients from 19 countries which was the largest trial to date among patients suffering from malignant mesothelioma. Results showed statistically significant increase in overall survival by about 30 % (12.1 months for pemetrexed /cisplatin versus 9.3 months for cisplatin alone. In addition, there was an improvement in lung function (forced vital capacity) in the pemetrexed /cisplatin arm in comparison to the cisplatin arm. Until now, however, there is no consensus on the number of cycles of pemetrexed/cisplatin in malignant mesothelioma and there are no approved predictive markers for response. Pemetrexed/cisplatin regimen is an expensive regimen and associated with considerable toxicity and so we need to rationalize its use in our Egyptian patients. Therefore, the investigators aim in this work to compare 4 cycles versus 6 cycles of pemetrexed/cisplatin in malignant mesothelioma and to identify a predictive marker for response.

Conditions

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Keywords

MPM

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Progression free survival

  one year

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Overall survival

  3 years

Study Arms (2)

Arm A

EXPERIMENTAL

Four cycles of pemetrexed/platinum

Drug: pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy

Arm B

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Six cycles of pemetrexed/platinum

Drug: Pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy

Interventions

Pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy DRUG

Four cycles of pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy

Arm A

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Histologic or cytologic diagnosis of malignant pleural Mesothelioma
• No prior chemotherapy.
• ECOG less than or equal to 2 .
• Measurable disease according to the requirements of SWOG criteria.
• Age ≥ 18 years .
• Estimated life expectancy of at least 12 weeks .
• Adequate bone marrow reserve (white blood cells \[WBC\] ≥ 3.5 × 109 /L, neutrophils ≥ 1.5 × 109 /L, platelets ≥ 100 × 109 /L, and hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 gm/dL).

You may not qualify if:

• Presence of central nervous system metastases.
• Inadequate liver function (bilirubin \> 1.5 times upper normal limit \[UNL\] and alanine transaminase \[ALT\] or aspartate transaminase \[AST\] \> 3.0 UNL or up to 5.0 UNL in the presence of hepatic metastases).
• Inadequate renal function (creatinine \> 1.25 times UNL, creatinine clearance \< 50mL/min).
• Serious concomitant systemic disorder incompatible with the study.
• Second primary malignancy (except in situ carcinoma of the cervix, adequately treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin, T1 vocal cord cancer in remission, or prior malignancy treated more than 5 years prior to enrollment without recurrence).
• Pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ain Shams University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ain Shams University Hospitals

Cairo, Egypt

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mesothelioma, Malignant

Interventions

Pemetrexed

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mesothelioma; Adenoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms, Mesothelial; Lung Neoplasms; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Pleural Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Guanine; Hypoxanthines; Purinones; Purines; Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds; Glutamates; Amino Acids, Acidic; Amino Acids; Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins; Amino Acids, Dicarboxylic

Study Officials

• Omar Abdel-Rahman, MD

  Ain Shams University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Omar Abdel-Rahman, MD

CONTACT

26858397; omar.abdelrhman@med.asu.edu.eg

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer of clinical Oncology, Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 10, 2015
• First Posted: July 14, 2015
• Study Start: June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2016
• Last Updated: July 14, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-07

Locations

EG (1)