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Advanced B-cell Lymphoid MalignanciesEarly Phase 1NCT01888952

Phase 0/1 Biomarker and Pharmacodynamic Study of Roflumilast in Patients With Advanced B-Cell Hematologic Malignancies (CTRC# 13-0013)

A Early Phase 1 study testing Prednisone and Roflumilast in people with Advanced B-cell Lymphoid Malignancies, run by Anand B. Karnad at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

This is a Phase 0/1 open-label, non-randomized, biomarker and pharmacodynamic study in patients with advanced B-cell lymphoid malignancies, including B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), multiple myeloma (MM), Waldenström's macroglobulinemia… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 100 years
Conditions the study is for
Advanced B-cell Lymphoid Malignancies
What is being tested?
Prednisone and Roflumilast
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
10 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Jul 2013to Jan 2015
Phase
Early Phase 1
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 100 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Signed informed consent.
  • Men and women > 18 years of age
  • Diagnosed with relapsed or refractory (per investigator assessment) B-cell hematologic malignancy, including CLL, SLL, ALL, MM, WM, mantle cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, or DLBCL that has progressed or recurred following prior therapy. Patients must have failed, refused, be ineligible, or not otherwise appropriate for any potential standard curative treatment. In addition, patients must be refractory to or intolerant of established therapy known to provide clinical benefit for their condition. The original diagnostic biopsy and/or other diagnostic data (e.g., cell marker data) will suffice.
  • Has failed ≥ 1 previous treatment for their malignancy, and has relapsed or refractory disease following most recent prior treatment.
  • ECOG performance status of ≤ 2 and a life expectancy of at least 3 months.
  • Ability to swallow oral tablets without difficulty.
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  • All subjects with preserved reproductive potential must agree to practice abstinence or employ contraceptive measures for the duration of treatment and for 4 weeks following final dosing.
  • All male subjects are considered to have reproductive potential.
  • Female subjects of reproductive potential are those who: 1) are not at least 50 years old and have no menses for 24 consecutive months; or 2) have not been rendered surgically sterile (having undergone hysterectomy and/or bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy).
  • Female subjects of reproductive potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of human chorionic gonadotropin ([hCG]) within 7 days of first day of drug dosing.
  • Has recovered from adverse, toxic effects of prior therapies to ≤ Grade 1(NCI-CTCAE v4) except for alopecia and peripheral neuropathy. This requirement will be subordinate to specific clinical and laboratory criteria that are otherwise specifically addressed in these inclusion/exclusion criteria. Peripheral neuropathy must have recovered to ≤ Grade 2 except for patients with WM, who may enroll with Grade 3 peripheral neuropathy if due to the underlying WM.
  • Meet the following clinical laboratory requirements:
  • All patients, except ALL:
  • Creatinine clearance by Cockcroft-Gault formula of ≥30 ml/min
  • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN (unless indirect bilirubin is elevated due to Gilbert's syndrome or hemolysis)
  • Aspartate aminotransaminase (AST) and alanine aminotransaminase (ALT) ≤ 3 × ULN
  • Platelet count ≥ 50,000/uL, patients may be transfused to this value.
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1000/uL, with or without chronic granulocyte growth factor support
  • Hemoglobin ≥8 g/dL, patients may be transfused to this value
  • For patients with ALL and CLL:
  • The hematological criteria do not apply.

Who cannot join

  • Prior allogeneic bone marrow transplant within 6 months of screening date.
  • Prior autologous stem cell transplant within 3 months of screening date.
  • Active central nervous system (CNS) involvement by lymphoma, including untreated symptomatic epidural disease.
  • Patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia or immune thrombocytopenia requiring on-going active immunotherapy at study entry other than systemic corticosteroids less than or equal to prednisone equivalent 20 mg/day.
  • Allergy or intolerance to roflumilast.
  • Immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or investigational therapy within 3 weeks (within 4 weeks for monoclonal antibodies; within 6 weeks for nitrosoureas; within 12 weeks for iodine-131 tositumomab and ibritumomab tiuxetan) prior to study drug dosing.
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  • Active uncontrolled infection.
  • Is receiving concurrent high doses of systemic corticosteroids. High dose is considered as >20 mg of dexamethasone a day (or equivalent) for >7 consecutive days.
  • Uncontrolled illness including but not limited to: symptomatic congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] Class III or IV heart failure), unstable angina pectoris, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, and psychiatric illness that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • History of myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndromes (including unstable angina), coronary angioplasty and/or stenting within 6 months prior to study drug dosing.
  • History of another currently active cancer or any other cancer < 2 years prior to study drug dosing, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, cervical cancer in situ or other adequately treated in situ carcinoma.
  • Patients with a history of major surgery within 3 weeks or minor surgery within one week of roflumilast administration. Major surgery includes, for example, any open or laparoscopic entry into a body cavity, or operative repair of fracture; minor surgery includes, for example, open surgical biopsy of palpable/superficial lymph node, or placement of vascular access device.
  • Other medical or psychiatric illness or organ dysfunction, which in the opinion of the investigator, would either compromise the subject's safety or interfere with the evaluation of the safety of the study agent.
  • Corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation (defined as a QTc >450 msec for males and >470 msec for females [Fridericia's correction]) or other clinically significant ECG abnormalities as assessed by the investigator.
  • Patients known to be HIV-positive must not have multi-drug resistant HIV infection, CD4 counts < 150/mcl or other concurrent AIDS-defining conditions.
  • Patients positive for Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or Hepatitis C-virus ribonucleic acid (HCV RNA), unless both AST and ALT≤1.25 x ULN and no known history of chronic active hepatitis.
  • Patients with moderate to severe liver impairment (Child-Pugh B or C)
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Patients with a history of depression or other psychiatric illness
  • Patients who are taking strong cytochrome P450 enzyme inducers and inhibitors.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Ctrc @ Uthscsa

    San Antonio, Texas, 78229

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About this study

This is a Phase 0/1 open-label, non-randomized, biomarker and pharmacodynamic study in patients with advanced B-cell lymphoid malignancies, including B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), multiple myeloma (MM), Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), mantle cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who have failed at least one prior therapy and for whom no standard curative therapy exists. Patients with advanced stage disease are those whose disease is resistant or refractory to standard chemotherapy or biological therapies.

Read the detailed description

This pilot study will evaluate whether the administration of roflumilast inhibits the activity of PDE4 and results in the modulation of AKT/mTOR pathways in patients with B-cell hematologic malignancies. Peripheral blood samples will be collected for the purpose of determining the pharmacodynamics of roflumilast on PDE4 activity and on biomarkers as related to GC resistance. Samples are obtained at baseline prior to starting study treatment, on Day 8 before the administration of the Day 8 study drugs (prednisone and roflumilast), and on Day 15. If a bone marrow biopsy is also performed prior to study treatment or at any time during treatment, a sample will be sent for analysis. Normal PBMC (and bone marrow when it is obtained) will be examined for changes in key targets related to the inhibition of PDE4 and potential reversal of glucocorticoid resistance. Biomarker blood samples will be analyzed in order to characterize the pharmacodynamics of roflumilast alone and in combination with prednisone on PDE4 activity and on biomarkers, such as phospho-AKT, phosphorylation levels of mTOR targets.

Being tested
Prednisone, Roflumilast

What participants receive

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

  • PrednisoneDrug

    Also called Deltasone

    Patients may receive additional courses of treatment with prednisone (and roflumilast) at the discretion of the investigator if they did not experience unacceptable toxicity and have stable disease or objectively responding disease.

  • RoflumilastDrug

    Also called Daliresp

    Patients may receive additional courses of treatment with roflumilast (and prednisone) at the discretion of the investigator if they did not experience unacceptable toxicity, and have stable disease or objectively responding disease.

Study groups in NCT01888952
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Roflumilast and PrednisoneExperimentalRoflumilast 500 mcg will be administered orally daily for 21 consecutive days (a 21-day cycle). In Cycle 1, prednisone 60 mg/m2 up to a maximum of 100 mg oral (PO) daily will be taken on Days 8 through 14 at the same time as roflumilast. In Cycle 2 and subsequent cycles, prednisone 60 mg/m2 PO up to a maximum of 100 mg daily will be taken on Days 1 through 7 at the same time as roflumilast.
Receives: Drug: Prednisone; Drug: Roflumilast

What is being measured

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

  1. Total Number of Adverse Events.

    Adverse events were listed using CTCAE Version 4.03 (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) toxicity grade.

    Measured: Average of 21 days.

Timeline

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

  1. First posted28 Jun 2013 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2013
  3. Primary completionJan 2015
  4. Study completionJan 2015

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More details

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

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
10 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01888952
Sponsor's protocol ID
CTRC 13-0013
Other IDs
HSC20130307H
Status last verified
Jan 2017
First submitted
8 May 2013
Last updated
27 Feb 2017
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Early Phase 1 study testing Prednisone and Roflumilast in people with Advanced B-cell Lymphoid Malignancies, run by Anand B. Karnad 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 21 inclusion and 20 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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Feb 2017. 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?

Early Phase 1 (sometimes called Phase 0) studies give a very small amount of a treatment to a few people, mainly to see how the body handles it.

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 Feb 2017). 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?

Total Number of Adverse Events. (time frame: Average of 21 days.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 27 Feb 2017.

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