Clinical Study on the Safety, Efficacy and Pharmacokinetics of Telpegfilgrastim in Pediatric Cancer Patients with Chemotherapy (Telpegfilgrast)

February 26, 2025 updated by: Yizhuo Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University

Clinical Study on the Safety, Efficacy and Pharmacokinetics of Telpegfilgrastim Injection in Pediatric Cancer Patients with Chemotherapy

This study is a multicenter, single-arm, prospective study. The study population includes children with cancer who require high-intensity chemotherapy. The study aims to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Telpegfilgrastim in preventing neutropenia in children with cancer (neuroblastoma, sarcoma, lymphoma, etc.) undergoing chemotherapy, while also studying the pharmacokinetic characteristics of Telpegfilgrastim in children with cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Compared with the currently available straight chain PEG-rhG-CSF, the structure of its Y-type branch chain affects the activity and metabolic rate of the drug to a certain extent. While prolonging the half-life of the drug, the dosage of the drug is also significantly lower than that of the long-acting products on the market. It can be prophylactically administered once after chemotherapy to maintain the effective blood concentration of the whole cycle and effectively prevent the occurrence of neutropenia. Due to the reduction of the dose, the incidence of side effects such as musculoskeletal pain is correspondingly reduced, and there may be a better safety. At the same time, the accessibility of clinical PEG-rhG-CSF can be further solved, and the treatment cost is also expected to decrease, so that more patients can benefit from PEG-rhG-CSF.

Telpegfilgrastim was approved on June 30, 2023 for "reducing the incidence of infection characterized by febrile neutropenia in patients with non-myeloid malignants who are treated with myelosuppressive anticancer agents that tend to cause clinically significant febrile neutropenia." At present, although Telpegfilgrastim has been approved for neutropenia induced by chemotherapy for non-myeloid malignant tumors, the safety and efficacy data in pediatric patients are lacking, and the pharmacokinetic characteristics in children are still unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Telpegfilgrastim in the prevention of neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, and to investigate the pharmacokinetics of Telpegfilgrastim in pediatric cancer patients.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

97

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.

Study Contact

Study Locations

    • Guangdong
      • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510060

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

  • Child
  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with 14≤ age < 18 years;

    • Newly diagnosed patients with non-myeloid malignancies who are confirmed by histopathology or cytology to require intensive chemotherapy (first course of chemotherapy or second course of chemotherapy);

      • Primary prevention (G-CSF 24 to 72 hours after the first use of chemotherapy agents with myelosuppression to prevent the occurrence of febrile neutropenia (FN)) or secondary prevention (if FN or dose-restricted neutropenia occurred in a patient during a previous chemotherapy cycle) is required. Prophylactic use of G-CSF can be considered for the next chemotherapy cycle.

Febrile neutropenia (FN) : Oral temperature >38.3 ° C (axillary temperature >38.1 ° C) or oral temperature >38.0 ° C (axillary temperature >37.8 ° C) with ANC<0.5×10^9/L for 2 consecutive measurements within 2 hours, or ANC is expected to decrease to <0.5×10^9/L within 48 hours.

  • KPS score ≥50 or Lansky (LPS) score ≥50;

    • Normal hematopoietic function of bone marrow (ANC≥1.5×10^9/L, PLT≥80×10^9 /L, Hb≥75g/L, WBC≥3.0×10^9/L, and not exceeding the upper limit of normal value);

      • Life expectancy of at least 6 months; ⑦ Obtain written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Received any rhG-CSF within 3 weeks prior to study participation;

    • Received any antibody coupling drug (ADC) drugs with potential blood toxicity within 3 weeks before participating in the study;

      • Recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation;

        • Clinical trials of other drugs were being conducted within 2 months before enrollment;

          • There is no control of infection, body temperature ≥38℃; ⑥ Liver function test: total bilirubin (TBIL) alanine aminotransferase (ALT.) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST.) were more than 2.5 times the upper limit of normal value; ⑦ Renal function test: serum creatinine (Cr.) > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal value; ⑧Other conditions considered by the researchers to be contraindications for this study.

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group
Use Telpegfilgrastim to prevent chemotherapy-induced neutropenia

Experimental group: Patients were subcutaneously injected with Telpegfilgrastim 33μg/kg (maximum dose ≤2mg) 24h after chemotherapy, 21 days for one chemotherapy cycle, and only one chemotherapy cycle was observed.

Pharmacokinetic determination: Among them, 8 patients underwent pharmacokinetic determination. The pharmacokinetic sampling time points were blood samples taken before administration, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h, 120h, 168 h, 336 h, 480h after administration. A total of 8 blood samples were collected, and the pharmacokinetic characteristics of the experimental drugs were analyzed by ELISA.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
overall incidence of adverse reactions
Time Frame: 1 year
The overall incidence of adverse reactions after prophylactic drug use during this period
1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Incidence of grade 3-4 neutropenia
Time Frame: 3 weeks
Incidence of grade 3-4 neutropenia during this period after prophylactic administration
3 weeks
Incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN)
Time Frame: 3 weeks
Incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) in this period after prophylaxis
3 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

December 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2025

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 2, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 26, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 26, 2025

Last Verified

February 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Telpegfilgrastim

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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