Upfront Treatment With Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab in Advanced Ovarian Cancer

July 26, 2018 updated by: Nada Hassan Salah
Our study aims at assessment of response, survival and toxicity of frontline treatment with chemotherapy and Bevacizumab in patients having advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy and is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in women .The majority of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease; only 15% of all cases are diagnosed with local disease. Risk factors for ovarian cancer include family history, nulliparity, lack of breast feeding, and infertility .

The GOG-0218 trial demonstrated that the use of bevacizumab in the front-line and maintenance setting improved progression free survival by 3.8 months when compared with conventional every-3-weeks carboplatin and paclitaxel.

The ICON-7 trial also aimed to compare the progression free survival and Overall survival in women who receive bevacizumab with carboplatin/paclitaxel and women receiving carboplatin/paclitaxel alone The final results of ICON7 were announced in 2013. Overall, the results showed no difference in overall survival between those in the group receiving bevacizumab han those in the group receiving no bevacizumab. However, for high-risk patients, who were most likely to have early disease progression, the results were positive and showed an improvement in overall survival of 4.8 months in the group who received bevacizumab.

Not only has the best route been intensely debated but the optimal timing of therapy has been and is currently being studied. Chemotherapy is usually given either only after primary debulking surgery or as both neoadjuvant chemotherapy before and after interval debulking surgery. recent trials have tried to determine which treatment timing is associated with better outcomes .

The aim of the study will be assessment of response, survival and toxicity of frontline treatment with chemotherapy and Bevacizumab in patients having advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

40

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Female patients diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer by biopsy
  • Age more than 18 years old
  • Routine labs are within normal values ( CBC, renal function tests , liver function tests )
  • Performance score 0-2
  • FIGO stage II-IV
  • Not having any contraindication to bevacizumab as : uncontrolled hypertension , bleeding tendency , ischaemic events
  • Chemotherapy naïve.
  • Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • patients previously received chemotherapy or radiotherapy to any part of the abdomen or pelvis
  • patients with uncontrolled infection
  • patients with clinically significant cardiovascular disease
  • patients with active bleeding or conditions associated with high risk of bleeding
  • patients with history of CNS disease

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: advanced ovarian cancer cases
patients with advanced ovarian cancer will receive Bevacizumab 15 mg/kg every 21 days with chemotherapy (Paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 & Carboplatin AUC 5 every 21 days)
Drug: Bevacizumab

The chemotherapy regimen will be Paclitaxel (175 mg/m2 of body surface area) administered intravenously over 3 h, followed by carboplatin (area under the curve 5) over 1 h, with standard antiemetic and hypersensitivity medications.

In patients who develop dose-limiting peripheral neuropathy or hypersensitivity, paclitaxel will be replaced with docetaxel (75 mg/m2), which is administered intravenously over 1 h.

Bevacizumab (15 mg/kg bodyweight) administered intravenously initially over 90 min (if tolerated, this time can be reduced to 60 min, and could be further reduced to a minimum of 30 min)

Other Names:
  • Chemotherapy drugs

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
progression free survival
Time Frame: 2 years
determination of time from starting treatment until first progression
2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Nada Hassan Salah

Collaborators

Assiut University

Investigators

  • Study Director: mohammed A mekkawy, prof, Assiut University
  • Study Director: mohammed A hassan, lecturer, Assiut University
  • Study Director: hisham abo taleb, lecturer, Assiut University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

September 1, 2018

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

August 31, 2022

Study Completion (Anticipated)

September 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 17, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 26, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

August 2, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 2, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 26, 2018

Last Verified

July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • bevacizumab in ovarian cancer

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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