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Pancreatic CancerPhase 2NCT00276744

Individualized Drug Treatment for Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer

A Phase 2 study testing cetuximab, capecitabine and docetaxel in people with Pancreatic Cancer, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Treating tumor tissue in the laboratory with different drugs may help doctors find the best drug for treating individual patients with pancreatic cancer. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying an individualized drug treatment selection process, based on laboratory results, for treating patients with… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 120 years
Conditions the study is for
Pancreatic Cancer
What is being tested?
cetuximab, capecitabine and docetaxel
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
249 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Oct 2005to Apr 2010
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 120 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Suspected adenocarcinoma of the pancreas with resectable disease schedule to have surgical resection at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
  • Age ≥ 18 years old.
  • Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
  • Part B
  • Participation in Part A of the study with informative mouse xenograft data.
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and peripancreatic adenocarcinoma, including distal cholangiocarcinoma, duodenal carcinoma, and ampullary pancreatic not amenable to curative treatment.
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  • ECOG performance status 0 or 1
  • Age ≥ 18 years old.
  • Expected survival > 12 weeks.
  • No prior treatment for recurrent disease.
  • Willingness of male and female subjects, who are not surgically sterile or postmenopausal, to use reliable methods of birth control (oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices, or barrier methods used with a spermicide) for the duration of the study and for 30 days after the last dose of test article.
  • Adequate liver, renal and bone marrow functions.
  • WBC > 3,500 cells/mm3 ANC > 1,500 cells/mm3 Platelets > 100,000 cells/mm3 Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dl Serum creatinine 2 mg/dl Bilirubin 2 mg/dL ALT, AST, and alkaline phosphatase 5 times the upper limit of normal

Who cannot join

  • Patients in whom histologic or cytologic diagnosis is not consistent with adenocarcinoma.
  • Patients in whom histologic or cytologic diagnosis is consistent with non epithelial origin tumors, including adenosquamous, islet cell, cystadenoma or cystadenocarcinoma, carcinoid, small or large cell carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma and melanoma
  • Patients with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events.
  • 4. Patients who have had any previous surgery, excluding minor procedures, dental work, skin biopsy, etc. within 4 weeks of enrollment.
  • 5. Uncontrolled medical conditions that could potentially increase the risk of toxicities or complications when treated with chemotherapy. Gastrointestinal tract disease resulting in an inability to take oral medication or a requirement for IV alimentation, prior surgical procedures affecting absorption, or active peptic ulcer disease.
  • 6. Active infections.
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  • 7. History of another neoplasm except for non-metastatic, nonmelanoma skin cancers, < 5 years prior to enrollment.
  • 8. Unable to provide informed consent.
  • 9. Treatment with chemotherapy within 30 days of day 1 treatment.
  • 10. Any unresolved chronic toxicity greater than CTCAE grade 2 from previous anticancer therapy (except alopecia).
  • 11. Pregnant women are excluded from this study because the effects of the chemotherapy agents to be tested on the developing fetus are not known. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with MMC, breast feeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with the drug.
  • 12. Patients must not have documented history of clinically significant cardiovascular disease including myocardial infarction (within 12 months prior to randomization), unstable angina, grade II or greater peripheral vascular disease, uncontrolled congestive heart failure or uncontrolled hypertension (SBP>170, DBP>95).
  • 13. Patients with non informative xenograft data including patients whose tumors do not take in the mice, who progress before mice data is available or whose tumors do not respond to any of the selected agents.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21231-2410

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About this study

Official title: A Feasibility Study for Individualized Treatment of Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

RATIONALE: Treating tumor tissue in the laboratory with different drugs may help doctors find the best drug for treating individual patients with pancreatic cancer.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying an individualized drug treatment selection process, based on laboratory results, for treating patients with pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Establish tumor xenografts from patients with resectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas who undergo surgical resection at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
  • Determine the activity of a series of 10 anticancer drugs against these tumors in ex vivo studies.
  • Determine the response rate, time to treatment failure, and 6-month survival rate in patients whose tumors were xenografted and treated in the mouse when treated with the most active agent identified in that model.
  • Define determinants of susceptibility and resistance to the drugs in xenografted tumors.

OUTLINE:

  • Part I (surgical resection, tumor xenografts generation, and drug selection): Patients undergo surgical resection. The resected tumor tissue is implanted in laboratory mice to generate tumor xenografts. The mice are then treated with a series of 10 approved anticancer drugs, whose anticancer activity are ranked from the most to the least effective based on response of the tumor xenografts. The most effective drug is identified for the individual patient. Patients for whom no drug is found to be effective are removed from the study. Patients who develop progressive disease after surgical resection and after mice data is available proceed to part II.
  • Part II (individual patient treatment): Patients receive the most effective drug identified in part I in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. The drugs may include bortezomib, capecitabine, cetuximab, docetaxel, erlotinib hydrochloride, gemcitabine hydrochloride, irinotecan hydrochloride, mitomycin C, sirolimus, or thalidomide.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.

Keywords
recurrent pancreatic cancer, stage III pancreatic cancer, adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, stage I pancreatic cancer, stage II pancreatic cancer
Medical subject headings
Pancreatic Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • cetuximabBiological

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • capecitabineDrug

    Also called xeloda

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • docetaxelDrug

    Also called taxotere

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • ErlotinibDrug

    Also called tarceva

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • GemcitabineDrug

    Also called gemzar

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • IrinotecanDrug

    Also called campto

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • mitomycin CDrug

    Also called mitomycin

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • rapamycinDrug

    Also called sirolimus

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

  • conventional surgeryProcedure or surgery

    Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Biological studies will be conducted in tumor tissues to better understand the response to tested drugs.

Study groups in NCT00276744
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Arm 1ExperimentalPART A: Participants will have their tumors collected at the time of conventional surgery. Tumors will be implanted in nude mice and treated with a set of 8 commercially available anticancer drugs. Drugs will be ranked based in their activity from most to least active. Patients will then proceed to receive adjuvant treatment based on physician discretion and will be followed until disease progression. Capecitabine 1,5 mmol/kg Oral gavage 1- 5 days x 2 weeks Cetuximab 500 mg IP Twice a week x 2 weeks Docetaxel 20 mg/kg IV Once at week x 4 weeks Erlotinib 75 mg/kg IP 1-5 days x 2 weeks Gemcitabine 100 mg/kg IP Twice a week x 4 weeks Irinotecan 50 mg/kg IV Twice a week Mitomycin C 5 mg/kg IP One dose Rapamycin 4 mg/kg IP 1-5 days x 2 weeks PART B: At the time of progression, patients will be evaluated for Part B of the study and treated with the drug selected in Part A as the most active using approved doses and schedules of administration.
Receives: Biological: cetuximab; Drug: capecitabine; Drug: docetaxel; Drug: Erlotinib; Drug: Gemcitabine; Drug: Irinotecan; Drug: mitomycin C; Drug: rapamycin; Procedure: conventional surgery

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. 6-month Overall Survival

    Percentage of patients survived at 6 months for patients whose tumors were xenografted and treated in the mouse when treated with the most active agent identified in that model

    Measured: 6 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted13 Jan 2006 (estimated)
  2. Study startOct 2005
  3. Primary completionApr 2010
  4. Study completionApr 2010

Why it stopped: Because there was no longer an active laboratory component to this study.

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
249 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00276744
Sponsor's protocol ID
J0507
Other IDs
P30CA006973, CDR0000455000, 05-04-14-02
Status last verified
Oct 2018
First submitted
12 Jan 2006
Last updated
24 Oct 2018
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Villarroel MC, Rajeshkumar NV, Garrido-Laguna I, De Jesus-Acosta A, Jones S, Maitra A, Hruban RH, Eshleman JR, Klein A, Laheru D, Donehower R, Hidalgo M. Personalizing cancer treatment in the age of global genomic analyses: PALB2 gene mutations and the response to DNA damaging agents in pancreatic cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2011 Jan;10(1):3-8. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-10-0893. Epub 2010 Dec 6.

    PubMed 21135251

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing cetuximab, capecitabine and docetaxel in people with Pancreatic Cancer, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 13 inclusion and 13 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Oct 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 27 Aug 2018). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

6-month Overall Survival (time frame: 6 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00276744, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 24 Oct 2018.

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