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Leukemia, Adult T-CellPhase 2NCT00117845

Phase II Study of the Efficacy and Toxicity of Ontak(Registered Trademark) (Denileukin Diftitox) in the Therapy of Adult T-Cell Leukemia

A Phase 2 study testing Denileukin diftitox (Ontak) in people with Leukemia, Adult T-Cell, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

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

Official record
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Trial summary

Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is and aggressive characterized by the presence of cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4)/cluster of differentiation 25 (CD25)-expressing T cells (interleukin-2 [IL-2]R expressing) in the peripheral blood and in lymphoid and other tissues. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Leukemia, Adult T-Cell
What is being tested?
Denileukin diftitox (Ontak)
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
17 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
11 Jul 2005to 30 Jun 2013
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 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients must have serum antibodies directed to human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-I).
  • All patients must have a histologically confirmed diagnosis of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and more than 10% of the malignant cells must express cluster of differentiation 25 (CD25).
  • All stages of Tac-expressing adult T cell leukemia except smoldering are eligible: patients with chronic, lymphomatous or acute adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) are eligible. (See appendix 2 for characteristics of patients with the various stages of ATL)
  • Patients must have measurable disease. All patients with greater than 10% abnormal (i.e. TAC homogenous strongly expressing) peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in the peripheral blood will be deemed to have measurable disease.
  • The patient must have a granulocyte count of at least 1000/mm^3 and a platelet count of greater than or equal to 50,000/mm^3.
  • Patients must have a creatinine of less than 2.0 mg/dl.
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  • Omission of cytotoxic chemotherapy for ATL for 3 weeks prior to entry into the trial is required. However, patients receiving corticosteroids will be eligible.
  • Patients must have a life expectancy of greater than 2 months.
  • Eligible patients must be greater than or equal to 18 years old. There is no upper age limit.
  • Patients must have serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) value less than or equal to 2.5 times the upper limit of normal and bilirubin less than or equal to 3.0/dl. If a liver function test is judged to be elevated due to the underlying ATL, this parameter will be considered an unevaluable parameter for toxicity determinations.
  • Patients must have a serum albumin greater than or equal to 2.5 g/dl
  • Patients must be able to understand and sign an Informed Consent form.
  • All patients must use adequate contraception during participation in this trial and for three months after completing therapy.

Who cannot join

  • Patients with symptomatic leukemic meningitis will be excluded. However, patients that have both ATL and another HTLV-I-associated disease, tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), will be included.
  • Pregnant and nursing patients are not eligible for the study.
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients are excluded from the study. Denileukin diftitox may produce a different pattern of toxicities in immunocompromised individuals.
  • Patients with Smoldering ATL are excluded.
  • Patients with serious intercurrent illnesses, past history of a myocardial infarction within 6 months or severe coronary artery disease
  • Patients who previously received Denileukin diftitox are ineligible.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

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About this study

Official title: Phase II Study of the Efficacy and Toxicity of Ontak (Denileukin Diftitox) in the Therapy of Adult T-Cell Leukemia

Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is and aggressive characterized by the presence of cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4)/cluster of differentiation 25 (CD25)-expressing T cells (interleukin-2 [IL-2]R expressing) in the peripheral blood and in lymphoid and other tissues. Denileukin diftitox (Ontak(Registered Trademark)) is a genetically engineered fusion protein that targets IL-2-expressing malignancies. Denileukin diftitox interacts with the IL-2R on the cell surface, is internalized via endocytosis, and inhibits cellular protein synthesis, resulting in cell death within hours to days. The objectives of this study are to determine the clinical response to Denileukin diftitox of patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and the safety of Denileukin diftitox in those patients.

Eligible participants must be 18 years of age or older with chronic, lymphomatous and acute forms of ATL, and must be infected with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV1).

Read more

Patients will be treated with 9 mcg/kg/d of Denileukin diftitox intravenously for 5 days every 2 weeks. Tumor response will be evaluated after two cycles of treatment. Stable or responding patients will continue treatment for a total of 12 months, with evaluations every four cycles of treatment. Patients will be treated for two cycles beyond a complete remission. The trial uses an optimal two-stage design targeting for a true response proportion of more than 30 percent. Nine patients will be treated initially, with expansion to 29 patients if a response is seen in 1 of the initial 9 patients treated. Treatment will be discontinued if a patient experiences serious side effects.

A potential benefit is that a patient may undergo partial or complete remission. The research may not directly benefit participants, but the results may aid in the treatment of others.

Read the detailed description

Background:

Adult T-Cell Leukemia is a lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by the presence of CD4/CD25 expressing T cells (IL-2R expressing) in the peripheral blood, in lymphoid and other tissues.

Denileukin diftitox is a genetically engineered fusion protein combining the enzymatically active domains of diphtheria toxin (DT) and the full length sequence of interleukin-2 (IL-2) that targets IL-2 expressing malignancies.

Denileukin diftitox interacts with the IL-2 R on the cell surface, is internalized via endocytosis, and inhibits cellular protein synthesis resulting in cell death within hours to days.

Objective:

Determine the clinical response to Denileukin diftitox (Ontak) of patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL).

Define the safety of Denileukin diftitox in patients who have ATL.

Eligibility:

Patients with chronic, lymphomatous and acute forms of ATL.

Patients must be human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV1) positive.

Design:

Patients will be treated with 9mcg/kg/d of Denileukin diftitox for five days, on an every two week schedule.

Tumor response will be evaluated after two cycles of treatment. Stable or responding patients will continue treatment with evaluations every four cycles of treatment. Patients will be treated for two cycles beyond a complete remission.

The trial uses an optimal 2 stage design targeting for a true response proportion greater than 30%. Nine patients will be treated initially with expansion to 29 patients if a response is seen in one of the initial nine patients treated. If no response is seen at the 9 mcg/kg/d dose an additional 9 patients will be treated at a dose of 18 mcg/kg/d with expansion to 29 patients at this dose level if a response is seen. A stopping rule for excessive toxicity will be incorporated.

Being tested
Denileukin diftitox (Ontak)
Keywords
Denileukin Diftitox (Ontak), Recombinant Immunotoxin, Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV1), CD25 Positive, IL-2R, ATL, Ontak, Adult T-Cell Leukemia, Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Medical subject headings
Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell, Lymphoproliferative Disorders

What participants receive

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

  • Denileukin diftitox (Ontak)Biological

    Patients will be treated with Denileukin Diftitox 9 mcg/kg/d intravenously for 5 days every 2 weeks.

Study groups in NCT00117845
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Denileukin Diftitox in ATLExperimentalDenileukin Diftitox in adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) Patients will be treated with Denileukin Diftitox 9 mcg/kg/d intravenously for 5 days every 2 weeks.
Receives: Biological: Denileukin diftitox (Ontak)

What is being measured

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

  1. Response Rate

    Response rate is based on the number of patients who achieve either a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) to therapy. Complete response is complete disappearance of all detectable clinical and radiographic evidence of disease and disappearance of all disease related symptoms if present before therapy and normalization of those biochemical abnormalities (for example LDH) definitely assignable to the lymphoma. Partial response is reduction by >=50% of leukemia cell count or >=50% reduction is the size of all measurable lesions, and no increase in size of any measurable or evaluable lesion or appearance of new lesion.

    Measured: up to 12 months

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Number of Participants With Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events

    Here is the count of participants with serious and non-serious adverse events assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v3.0). A non-serious adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence. A serious adverse event is an adverse event or suspected adverse reaction that results in death, a life-threatening adverse drug experience, hospitalization, disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions, congenital anomaly/birth defect or important medical events that jeopardize the patient or subject and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the previous outcomes mentioned.

    Measured: Date treatment consent signed to date off study, approximately 72 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted8 Jul 2005 (estimated)
  2. Study start11 Jul 2005
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2011
  4. Study completion30 Jun 2013

Why it stopped: Premature closure as study drug is no longer available from the manufacturer.

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
17 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00117845
Sponsor's protocol ID
050185
Other IDs
05-C-0185
Status last verified
Nov 2019
First submitted
7 Jul 2005
Last updated
19 Nov 2019
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Yates AD, Morgan WT, Watkins WM. Linkage-specific alpha-D-galactosidases from Trichomonas foetus: characterisation of the blood-group B-destroying enzyme as a 1, 3-alpha-galactosidase and the blood-group P1-destroying enzyme as a 1, 4-alpha-galactosidase. FEBS Lett. 1975 Dec 15;60(2):281-5. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(75)80731-9. No abstract available.

    PubMed 6322
  • Uchiyama T, Yodoi J, Sagawa K, Takatsuki K, Uchino H. Adult T-cell leukemia: clinical and hematologic features of 16 cases. Blood. 1977 Sep;50(3):481-92. No abstract available.

    PubMed 301762
  • Poiesz BJ, Ruscetti FW, Gazdar AF, Bunn PA, Minna JD, Gallo RC. Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1980 Dec;77(12):7415-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.77.12.7415.

    PubMed 6261256

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Denileukin diftitox (Ontak) in people with Leukemia, Adult T-Cell, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) 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 6 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 19 Nov 2019. 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 25 Oct 2012). 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?

Response Rate (time frame: up to 12 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 NCT00117845, which also lists 3 linked publications.

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 19 Nov 2019.

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