Four Cycles Versus Six Cycles of Cisplatin-based Chemotherapy in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma
FOCUS
Four Cycles of Cisplatin-Based Chemotherapy in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma Compared to Six Cycles: Randomized Phase III Trial - FOCUS Study -
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interventional
330
1 country
19
Brief Summary
The objective is to show non-inferiority of overall survival between four cycles and six cycles of first-line cisplatin based chemotherapy to determine the optimal duration of chemotherapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for phase_3
Started Sep 2016
Longer than P75 for phase_3
19 active sites
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 22, 2016
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
September 1, 2016
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
September 28, 2017
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
August 1, 2021
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
February 1, 2022
CompletedSeptember 28, 2017
September 1, 2017
4.9 years
August 22, 2016
September 23, 2017
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Overall survival
Overall survival is defined as the time from enrollment of study until death from any cause (or date of last follow-up for patients still alive)
5 years
Secondary Outcomes (4)
Progression free survival
Every 6-8 weeks, from date of enrollment until the date of first documented progression
Tumor response rate
Every 6-8 weeks, assess the tumor response from date of enrollment
safety using NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 4.03)
Every 2-4 weeks, from date of enrollment until 30th days of last cycles treatment or initation of new regimen
Quality of life composite score of EORTC-QoL-C30 and EORTC CIPN20
0-1 week, 12-18 week, 24-34 week after enrollment
Study Arms (2)
6 cycles arm
ACTIVE COMPARATORPatients without evidence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicities after completion of two or four treatment cycles of cisplatin based chemotherapy (GP, GP-S, MVAC, HD-MVAC with GCSF) were randomly assigned to receive additional two to four cycles of chemotherapy (totally six cycles)
4 cycles arm
EXPERIMENTALPatients without evidence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicities after completion of two or four treatment cycles of cisplatin based chemotherapy (GP, GP-S, MVAC, HD-MVAC with GCSF) were randomly assigned to receive additional zero to two cycles of chemotherapy (totally four cycles)
Interventions
* GP regimen: Gemcitabine (1000 mg/m2 D1, D8), Cisplatin (60 mg/m2 D1), every 3 weeks * GP-S regimen: Gemcitabine (1000 mg/m2 D1, D8), Cisplatin (35 mg/m2 D1,D 2 or D8), every 3 weeks * MVAC regimen: Methotrexate (30 mg/m2 IV bolus, D1, 15, 22), Vinblastine (3 mg/m2 IV bolus, D2, 15, 22), Doxorubicin (30 mg/m2 IV bolus D2), Cisplatin (70 mg/m2 D2), every 4 weeks * HD-MVAC with GCSF regimen: Methotrexate (30 mg/m2 IV bolus, D1), Vinblastine (3 mg/m2 IV bolus, D2), Doxorubicin (30 mg/m2 IV bolus D2), Cisplatin (70 mg/m2 D2), G-CSF (240 ug/m2 SC, D4-10), every 2 weeks
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed urothelial cancer
- Unresectable locally advanced (T3b, N2-3), metastatic (M1), or recurrent disease
- Age 18 years or older
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0-1
- Not progressed disease status after 2 or 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy
- Adequate organ and bone marrow function for chemotherapy
- No history of radiation therapy, or radiation field within 25% of whole marrow would be allowed. If patients underwent radiation therapy in entire pelvis, they are excluded to this study. Patients should discontinue radiation therapy at least 4 weeks before enrollment, and the patients should be recovered from radiation therapy associated adverse events.
- Women should use contraceptive medication for 6 months after the end of the study or she would be post-menopause status. Men should consent with the contraception for 6 months after the end of the study or he would be infertile.
- Patients should sign a written informed consent before study entry.
You may not qualify if:
- Histologic types other than urothelial cell carcinoma should be excluded. However, urothelial cell types combined with squamous or glandular features are allowed.
- Patients who showed progressed disease status after 2 or 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, cannot be treated with additional chemotherapy due to adverse events, or already undertook with reduced dose of more than 50%
- Presence or history of CNS metastasis
- Prior systemic chemotherapy (But prior intravesical chemotherapy or immunotherapy was allowed, and recurrent disease after adjuvant or neoadjuvant cisplatin-based systemic chemotherapy is allowed if the last chemotherapy was administered 1 year or more before the patient enrollment)
- Peripheral sensory neuropathy grade 2 or worse according to NCI CTCAE
- History of treatment with drugs of another clinical trial within 30 days before enrollment.
- Concomitant severe medical, surgical, or psychiatric disease or problems which can affect the results of the clinical trial or have possibilities of unexpected medical problems caused be the drug of clinical trial
- History of another malignancy (but treated malignancy at least two years before enrollment were allowed, and cured non-melanoma skin cancer, any cured in-situ carcinoma, clinically insignificant localized prostate cancer, or papillary thyroid carcinoma are allowed even diagnosed less than 2 years before enrollment).
- Pregnant or lactating women, women of childbearing potential not employing adequate contraception
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Asan Medical Centerlead
- Korean Cancer Study Groupcollaborator
Study Sites (19)
Kwonoh Park
Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, 50612, South Korea
Hallym University Medical Center, Hallym University College of Medicine
Anyang, South Korea
Fatima Hospital
Daegu, South Korea
Keimyeong University Dongsan Medical Center
Daegu, South Korea
Chungnam University Hospital
Daejeon, South Korea
National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital
Goyang, South Korea
Gil Medical Center
Incheon, South Korea
Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital
Pusan, South Korea
Kosin University Hospital
Pusan, South Korea
Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine
Pusan, South Korea
Asan Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea
Chung Ang University Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
Korea University Anam Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Seoul National University Hospital, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
VHS medical center
Seoul, South Korea
Yonsei Cancer Center
Seoul, South Korea
St. Vincent's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea
Suwon, South Korea
Related Publications (6)
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PMID: 18685414RESULTvon der Maase H, Hansen SW, Roberts JT, Dogliotti L, Oliver T, Moore MJ, Bodrogi I, Albers P, Knuth A, Lippert CM, Kerbrat P, Sanchez Rovira P, Wersall P, Cleall SP, Roychowdhury DF, Tomlin I, Visseren-Grul CM, Conte PF. Gemcitabine and cisplatin versus methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin in advanced or metastatic bladder cancer: results of a large, randomized, multinational, multicenter, phase III study. J Clin Oncol. 2000 Sep;18(17):3068-77. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2000.18.17.3068.
PMID: 11001674RESULTSternberg CN, de Mulder P, Schornagel JH, Theodore C, Fossa SD, van Oosterom AT, Witjes JA, Spina M, van Groeningen CJ, Duclos B, Roberts JT, de Balincourt C, Collette L; EORTC Genito-Urinary Cancer Group. Seven year update of an EORTC phase III trial of high-dose intensity M-VAC chemotherapy and G-CSF versus classic M-VAC in advanced urothelial tract tumours. Eur J Cancer. 2006 Jan;42(1):50-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2005.08.032. Epub 2005 Dec 5.
PMID: 16330205RESULTLoehrer PJ Sr, Einhorn LH, Elson PJ, Crawford ED, Kuebler P, Tannock I, Raghavan D, Stuart-Harris R, Sarosdy MF, Lowe BA, et al. A randomized comparison of cisplatin alone or in combination with methotrexate, vinblastine, and doxorubicin in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a cooperative group study. J Clin Oncol. 1992 Jul;10(7):1066-73. doi: 10.1200/JCO.1992.10.7.1066.
PMID: 1607913RESULTKim YR, Lee JL, You D, Jeong IG, Song C, Hong B, Hong JH, Ahn H. Gemcitabine plus split-dose cisplatin could be a promising alternative to gemcitabine plus carboplatin for cisplatin-unfit patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2015 Jul;76(1):141-53. doi: 10.1007/s00280-015-2774-z. Epub 2015 May 23.
PMID: 26001531RESULTPark JO, Kim SW, Ahn JS, Suh C, Lee JS, Jang JS, Cho EK, Yang SH, Choi JH, Heo DS, Park SY, Shin SW, Ahn MJ, Lee JS, Yun YH, Lee JW, Park K. Phase III trial of two versus four additional cycles in patients who are nonprogressive after two cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy in non small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Nov 20;25(33):5233-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.10.8134.
PMID: 18024869RESULT
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jae-Lyun Lee, MD., PhD.
Asan Medical Center
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 3
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Associated Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 22, 2016
First Posted
September 28, 2017
Study Start
September 1, 2016
Primary Completion
August 1, 2021
Study Completion
February 1, 2022
Last Updated
September 28, 2017
Record last verified: 2017-09