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- Clinical Trial NCT01928511
Efficacy of Switching or Adding Pegylated Interferon in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients on Long Term Oral Antiviral Therapy (SWAP)
SWITCH OR ADD PEGYLATED-INTERFERON IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS B PATIENTS ON LONG TERM NUCLEOS(T)IDE THERAPY (SWAP TRIAL)
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
- HYPOTHESIS AND OBJECTIVES PEG-IFN as an immunomodulatory agent could potentiate the antiviral efficacy of patients on long term nucleos(t)ide analogue therapy and improve early indicators of efficacy, HBeAg loss and reduction in qHBsAg. This study will also test whether add-on compared to switch PEG-IFN is superior, if at all.
- STUDY DESIGN This is a randomized, open-label, active-controlled study to evaluate safety and the efficacy of HBeAg loss or reduction in qHBsAg >1 log in nucleos(t)ide analogue treated chronic hepatitis B subjects who will be treated with add on PEG (A), switch to PEG (B) or continued nucleos(t)ide analogue (C) for 48 weeks. Patients randomized to Arm B will have a one-month overlap period when switching from existing NA to PEG monotherapy. This is to prevent viral rebound during the switch. Patients will be randomized in a 2:2:1 ratio to one of the 3 treatment arms A, B, and C. Arms A and B are experimental arms. Arm C is the control arm.
- STUDY POPULATION Approximately 255 subjects will be enrolled into this study.
3.1 Inclusion Criteria
For entry into this study, the following inclusion criteria must be met:
- Age 21 - 70 years old (inclusive)
- Male or female subjects with chronic hepatitis B (ie. presence of positive HBsAg or HBV DNA for at least 6 months.
- On any NA (lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir or tenofovir) for ≥ 1 year
- HBV DNA undetected at screening
- Patient has agreed not to take any other investigational drug or systemic anti-viral, cytotoxic, corticosteroid, immunomodulatory agents or Chinese traditional remedies unless clinically indicated.
- Patient is able to give written consent prior to study start and to comply with the study requirements.
- Women of childbearing age must have a negative urine (ß-HCG) pregnancy test taken within 14 days of starting therapy
3.2 Exclusion Criteria
For entry into this study, the following exclusion criteria must not be met:
- Patient who is on telbivudine.
- Evidence of decompensated liver disease defined as direct (conjugated) bilirubin >1.2xULN, prothrombin time (PT) >1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN), serum albumin <35 g/L, or prior history of clinical hepatic decompensation (egs. ascites, encephalopathy, variceal hemorrhage).
- Evidence of hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Active co-infection with HIV antibody or HCV antibody or HDV antibody positivity.
- Presence of viral resistance defined as virological breakthrough (>1 log increase in HBV DNA from nadir) and presence of viral resistance mutations at the time of screening
- Absolute neutrophil count <1.5 X 109/L or platelets <90 x 109/L or hemoglobin <13 g/dL for men or <12g/dL for women
- Creatinine >1.5 times upper limit of normal or creatinine clearance <60mL/min (performed by central lab)
- Uncontrolled thyroid disease defined as thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) >1.2xULN or 0.8xLLN or thyroid dysfunction.
- Any interferon, Immunomodulators, systemic cytotoxic agents, or systemic corticosteroids within 6 months before trial entry.
- Active substance abuse as defined by DSM-IV, Diagnostic Criteria for Drug and Alcohol abuse (appendix 1), which in the opinion of the investigator would make the candidate inappropriate for participation in this study.
- History of clinically relevant psychiatric disease, seizures, central nervous system dysfunction, severe pre-existing cardiac, renal, hematological disease or medical illness that in the investigator's opinion might interfere with therapy.
- History of autoimmune diseases.
- Ophthalmological disorders such as retinopathy, cotton wool spots, optic nerve disorder, retinal hemorrhage, or any other clinically significant abnormality.
- Chronic pulmonary diseases (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidsis).
- Malignant disease within 5 years of trial entry.
- Women who are pregnant and who are not practicing adequate birth control measures, or who are lactating
4.1 Study Treatment
Product, Dose, and Mode of Administration:
Peginterferon α-2b (PEG), 1.5 μg/kg, will be administered weekly by subcutaneous injection for the specified period of time (see Study Design, Arms A and B). Pegintron® (MSD Pharmaceuticals). The dosage will be determined based on the recommended dosing regimen stated in the Pegintron product brochure provided by MSD Pharmaceuticals.
Reference Therapy, Dose, and Mode of Administration:
Patients will be on their existing nucleosid(t)e analogue therapy comprising lamivudine 100mg daily, adefovir 10mg daily, entecavir 0.5mg or 1.0mg daily or tenofovir 300mg daily, (or combinations thereof) all taken as oral medication. These will not be provided by the study protocol.
4.2 Method of Assigning Subjects to a Treatment Randomisation will be performed by computer generated random codes (performed by Singapore Clinical Research Institute) with a masked allocation sequence. Randomization across treatment arms will be stratified by HBeAg status, type of nucleosid(t) analogue, and fibroscan score (<8.8 or ≥8.8) to ensure equal distribution across the 3 treatment groups.
4.3 Blinding/Unblinding There will be no blinding of therapy and the study will be conducted as an open label study as is standard for interferon clinical trials.
5. STUDY ASSESSMENTS AND PROCEDURES 5.1 Time and Event schedule 5.1.1. Screening Visit (Days - 45 to 1) 5.1.2. Baseline Assessments (day 1) 5.1.3. Treatment Assessments (day 2 to week 48) 5.1.4. Pegylated-interferon-free Follow-up (FU) Visits: FU-Week 1 to 24
5.2 Clinical Laboratory Tests Hematology: Full blood count (FBC), prothrombin time and international normalized ratio (PT INR) Chemistry: creatinine, albumin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, lactate dehydrogenase, total bilirubin, creatine phosphokinase, alphafetoprotein, (thyroid stimulating hormone and free T4 for patient on PEG-IFN) Urinalysis: Protein, Blood, Glucose Viral serology: HBeAg, anti-HBe, HBsAg, qHBsAg and anti-HBs
6.0 Efficacy assessments HBeAg qualitative Anti-HBe qualitative HBsAg qualitative HBsAg quantitative HBV DNA (real time PCR)
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 4
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Singapore, Singapore
- National University Hospital
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Singapore, Singapore
- Singapore General Hospital
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Singapore, Singapore
- Tan Tock Seng Hospital
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Singapore, Singapore
- Changi General Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Between 21 and 70 years old.
- Documented to be HBsAg positive for ≥ 6 months.
- On any nucleos(t)ide analogue (lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir or tenofovir)for ≥ 1 year
- HBV DNA undetectable by RT PCR at screening
- Patient has agreed not to take any other investigational drug or systemic anti-viral, cytotoxic, corticosteroid, immunomodulatory agents or Chinese traditional remedies unless clinically indicated.
- Patient is able to give written consent prior to study start and to comply with the study requirements.
- Women of childbearing age must have a negative serum (ß-HCG) pregnancy test taken with 14 days of starting therapy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evidence of decompensated liver disease or hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Have any of the following laboratory tests within 4 weeks of study entry:
- HIV antibody or HCV antibody or HDV antibody positivity
- Absolute neutrophil count < 1.5 X 109/l or platelets < 90 x 109/l or hemoglobin < 13 g/dL for men or 12g/dL for women
- serum albumin <35 g/l or serum bilirubin > 30 mg/l
- creatinine > 1.5 times upper limit of normal
- prothrombin time > 1.5 times control, uncorrected by Vitamin K therapy.
- Any interferon, Immunomodulators, systemic cytotoxic agents, or systemic corticosteroids within 6 months before trial entry.
- Prolonged exposure to known hepatotoxins such as alcohol or drugs.
- History of clinically relevant psychiatric disease, seizures, central nervous system dysfunction, severe pre-existing cardiac, renal, hematological disease or medical illness that in the investigator's opinion might interfere with therapy.
- Malignant disease within 5 years of trial entry.
- Women who are pregnant and who are not practicing adequate birth control measures, or who are lactating
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Continued oral nucleos(t)ide therapy
Patients assigned to this arm will continue their nucleos(t) analogue
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Other Names:
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Experimental: Add on peg-interferon
Patients assigned to this arm will continue their existing nucleos(t)ide therapy and also be assigned peg-interferon alpha 2b 1.5mcg/kg sc weekly
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Other Names:
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Experimental: switch to peg-interferon
Patients assigned to this arm will stop their existing nucleos(t)ide therapy after one month overlap after starting peg-interferon alpha 2b 1.5mcg/kg sc weekly
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Reduction in quantitative HBsAg>1 log
Time Frame: Week 72
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Week 72
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HBeAg loss
Time Frame: week 72
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week 72
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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HBsAg seroclearance
Time Frame: week 72
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week 72
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HBeAg seroconversion
Time Frame: week 72
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In HBeAg positive patients at baseline
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week 72
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HBsAg <200 IU/ml
Time Frame: week 72
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week 72
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undetectable HBV DNA
Time Frame: week 72
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week 72
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Seng Gee Lim, MBBS, FRACP, FRCP, MD, National University Health System
Publications and helpful links
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 (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Digestive System Diseases
- RNA Virus Infections
- Virus Diseases
- Infections
- Blood-Borne Infections
- Communicable Diseases
- Liver Diseases
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Hepadnaviridae Infections
- DNA Virus Infections
- Enterovirus Infections
- Picornaviridae Infections
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Antiviral Agents
- Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
- Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Anti-Retroviral Agents
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Tenofovir
- Interferons
- Interferon-alpha
- Interferon alpha-2
- Entecavir
- Lamivudine
- Peginterferon alfa-2b
- Adefovir
Other Study ID Numbers
- MK4031-398
- CIRG12may075 (Other Grant/Funding Number: National Medical Research Council Singapore)
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