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- Clinical Trial NCT00660231
Gemcitabine and Bexarotene in Treating Patients With Progressive or Refractory Stage IB, Stage II, Stage III, or Stage IV Cutaneous T-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (GemBex)
A Phase II Study of Gemcitabine and Bexarotene (Gembex) in the Treatment of Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine and bexarotene, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more cancer cells.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying giving gemcitabine together with bexarotene to see how well it works in treating patients with progressive or refractory stage IB, stage II, stage III, or stage IV cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES:
Primary
- Confirm the feasibility and efficacy of the combination of gemcitabine hydrochloride and bexarotene in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma whose disease is no longer controlled by skin-directed therapy and who have had at least one prior systemic therapy.
Secondary
- Determine the rate of objective disease control as defined by complete response (CR), clinical complete response (CCR), partial response (PR), and stable disease (SD) for 6 months as determined by the Objective Primary Disease Response Evaluation Criteria (OPDREC).
- Evaluate the duration and durability of objective disease response (CR, CCR and PR) as determined by OPDREC criteria.
- Evaluate time to objective disease response.
- Determine the safety of this combination in terms of adverse events, clinical laboratory data, physical examinations, rate of neutropenic fever and sepsis, blood transfusions, and treatment compliance.
- Determine the time to objective disease progression.
- Determine the time to treatment failure.
- Determine change from baseline in Severity-Weighted Assessment Tool (SWAT) value, Erythroderma SWAT value, Pruritus Visual Analogue Scale, and ECOG performance status.
- Determine proportion of disease control, response, and progression as determined by RECIST criteria.
- Evaluate the proportion of patients with clearing of Sézary cells from the blood and bone marrow.
- Measure changes in patient assessed Quality of Life using Skindex 29 and EORTC QLQ-30.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Patients receive gemcitabine hydrochloride IV on days 1 and 8 and oral bexarotene daily on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for up to 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After 4 courses of study therapy, patients with responding disease receive oral bexarotene alone daily until disease progression or treatment no longer tolerated.
Patients complete a quality of life questionnaire at baseline, during study therapy, and after completion of study treatment.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 2 months for up to 5 years.
Peer Reviewed and Funded or Endorsed by Cancer Research UK
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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England
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Leeds, England, United Kingdom, LS9 7TF
- Leeds Cancer Centre at St. James's University Hospital
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London, England, United Kingdom, EC1A 7BE
- Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
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London, England, United Kingdom, SE1 7EH
- St. Thomas' Hospital
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Manchester, England, United Kingdom, M20 4BX
- Christie Hospital
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Southampton, England, United Kingdom, SO16 6YD
- Southampton General Hospital
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Truro, England, United Kingdom, TR1 3LJ
- Royal Cornwall Hospital
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Scotland
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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, EH4 2XU
- Edinburgh Cancer Centre at Western General Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) including its variants (e.g., mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome)
- CTCL stage IB, IIA, IIB, III or IVA disease
No visceral involvement (i.e., stage IVB disease)
- Lymphadenopathy is allowed
- Patients must have developed progressive disease after receiving or have been refractory to at least 1 course of prior standard, systemic, skin-directed therapy (e.g., interferon, chemotherapy, or denileukin diftitox [Ontak®])
- No CD30 + (Ki1+ve) anaplastic large cell lymphoma
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-1
- Life expectancy > 6 months
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL (transfusions and/or erythropoietin are allowed)
- ANC > 1.5 x 10^9/L
- Platelet count ≥ 100 x 10^9/L
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.25 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST and ALT ≤ 2 times ULN
- Serum creatinine ≤ 2 times ULN
- No clinically significant active infection
- No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
- No excessive alcohol consumption
- No biliary tract disease
- No history of pancreatitis
- HIV negative
- Hepatitis B and C negative
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 1 month after study participation
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively treated basal or squamous cell skin cancer, cervical epithelial neoplasm CIN1, or carcinoma in situ
- No other significant medical or psychiatric condition that would preclude study compliance
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- More than 4 weeks since any prior investigational agent
- More than 2 weeks since prior topical steroids or more than 4 weeks since prior systemic steroids
- Local radiotherapy may be given to isolated symptomatic tumour nodules that require immediate treatment for up to 2 weeks prior to study drugs
- No prior treatment with bexarotene (Targretin®)
- No concurrent anticancer therapy
- No concurrent investigational agent
- No concurrent drug therapy with other medications that can elevate triglycerides or cause pancreatic toxicity (e.g., gemfibrozil)
- No concurrent warfarin
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: GemBex
Gemcitabine days 1 and 8 of a 3 week cycle (4 cycles total - 12 weeks) Bexarotene daily: in combination with Gemcitabine during first 12 weeks, then Bexarotene maintenance until disease progression.
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Bexarotene daily p.o. 150mg/sq m during week 1 and 2, then 300mg/sq m if tolerated.
Other Names:
Gemcitabine i.v.
1000mg/sq m day 1 and day 8 of four 21 day cycles.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Rate of objective response
Time Frame: at 24 weeks
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at 24 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Duration and durability of objective disease response
Time Frame: up to 5 years after treatment start
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Time from first date of treatment to the first date of diagnosis of progressive disease
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up to 5 years after treatment start
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Assessment of quality of life
Time Frame: up to 5 years after treatment start
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up to 5 years after treatment start
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ESTIMATE)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
- stage III cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- stage IV cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- recurrent cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- stage III mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
- stage IV mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
- recurrent mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
- stage II cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- stage II mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
- stage IB mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome
- stage IB cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Immune System Diseases
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders
- Lymphatic Diseases
- Immunoproliferative Disorders
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
- Lymphoma
- Lymphoma, T-Cell
- Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Antiviral Agents
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
- Antimetabolites
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Immunosuppressive Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Gemcitabine
- Bexarotene
Other Study ID Numbers
- UCL/06/009
- CRUK-UCL-GEMBEX
- EU-20841
- EUDRACT 2006-000591-33
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