- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT02497053
Four Versus Six Cycles of Pemetrexed/Platinum for MPM
Four Versus Six Cycles of Pemetrexed/Platinum as a First Line Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma; a Randomized Phase II Study
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.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Cairo, Egypt
- Recruiting
- Ain Shams University Hospitals
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Contact:
- Omar Abdel-Rahman, MD
- Phone Number: 26858397
- Email: omar.abdelrhman@med.asu.edu.eg
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Contact:
- Ahmed Nagi, MD
- Email: ahmedalynagy@yahoo.com
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Principal Investigator:
- Omar Abdel-Rahman, MD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Ahmed Nagi, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 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).
Exclusion Criteria:
- 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
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Arm A
Four cycles of pemetrexed/platinum
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Four cycles of pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy
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Active Comparator: Arm B
Six cycles of pemetrexed/platinum
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Six cycles of pemetrexed/platinum chemotherapy
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Progression free survival
Time Frame: one year
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one year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Overall survival
Time Frame: 3 years
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3 years
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Omar Abdel-Rahman, MD, ain shams University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
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
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Respiratory Tract Diseases
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Lung Diseases
- Neoplasms by Site
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
- Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
- Thoracic Neoplasms
- Lung Neoplasms
- Adenoma
- Neoplasms, Mesothelial
- Pleural Neoplasms
- Mesothelioma
- Mesothelioma, Malignant
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Folic Acid Antagonists
- Pemetrexed
Other Study ID Numbers
- Meso-01
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