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Mucosal MelanomaPhase 2BUS255NCT00424515

Imatinib in Patients With Mucosal or Acral/Lentiginous Melanoma

A Phase 2 study testing Imatinib in people with Mucosal Melanoma and Acral/Lentiginous Melanoma, run by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at 5 sites in United States.

Completed

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

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how effective imatinib (Gleevec) is in treating acral/lentiginous and mucosal melanoma which has spread to other parts of the body in patients who's disease carries a c-kit mutation. Imatinib is a protein-kinase inhibitor. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Imatinib
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
24 participants
Where
5 sitesUnited States
Study dates
Jul 2006to Jul 2011
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

  • Melanomas that arise on chronically sun damaged skin and have pathologic evidence of solar elastosis
  • History of primary mucosal or acral/lentiginous melanoma
  • Histologically documented stage IV metastatic melanoma
  • ECOG performance status 0,1, or 2
  • Estimated life expectancy of 6 months or greater
  • Age 18 years or older
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  • Creatinine < 1.5 x ULN
  • ANC > 1500 ul
  • Platelets > 100,000 ul
  • Total bilirubin, AST, and ALT < 2 x ULN
  • Amylase and lipase < 1.5 x ULN
  • C-kit mutation documented from either primary or metastatic tumor site
  • > 4 weeks from prior chemotherapy or investigational drug
  • At least one measurable site of disease as defined by at least 1 cm in greatest dimension

Who cannot join

  • Severe and/or uncontrolled medical disease
  • Pregnant or nursing mothers
  • Any other significant medical, surgical, or psychiatric condition that my interfere with compliance
  • Patient is < 5 years free of another primary malignancy except: basal cell skin cancer or a cervical carcinoma in situ
  • Concurrent treatment with Warfarin
  • Prior treatment with c-kit inhibitor
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  • Patient with Grade III/IV cardiac problems as defined by NYHA criteria
  • No H2 blockers or proton pump inhibitors
  • Known brain metastasis
  • Known chronic liver disease
  • Known diagnosis of HIV infection
  • Previous radiotherapy to > 25% of the bone marrow
  • Major surgery within 2 weeks prior to study entry
  • Patient has received any other investigational agent within 28 days of first study drug dosing
  • Chemotherapy within 4 weeks prior to study entry

Trial locations and contacts

5 sites in 1 country.

5 sites in 1 country

United States5 sites
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

  • University of Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, 60637

  • University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center

    Denver, Colorado, 80045

  • MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

    Tampa, Florida, 33612

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About this study

Official title: A Phase II Study of Imatinib in Patients With Mucosal or Acral/Lentiginous Melanoma and Melanomas That Arise on Chronically Sun Damaged Skin.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how effective imatinib (Gleevec) is in treating acral/lentiginous and mucosal melanoma which has spread to other parts of the body in patients who's disease carries a c-kit mutation. Imatinib is a protein-kinase inhibitor. It is believed that imatinib may be effective in blocking signals on certain cancer cells which allow the malignant cells to multiply and spread.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • To determine the response rate of patients with metastatic mucosal, acral/lentiginous, or chronically sun damaged melanomas to treatment with of imatinib.
  • To determine the time to progression.

Secondary

  • To correlate c-kit mutational status with response to therapy.
  • To evaluate the use of FDG-PET scanning in determining early biologic response to therapy.
  • Tolerability of imatinib.
  • To assess amplification of c-kit status through quantitative PCR and/or FISH and other related molecular pathway targets.
  • To correlate c-kit amplification status with response to therapy.
Being tested
Imatinib
Keywords
Imatinib, Gleevec

What participants receive

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

  • ImatinibDrug

    Also called Gleevec

    Imatinib was given at a dose of 400 mg orally daily (4 100mg pills). Patients received treatment up to 12 months as long as they were receiving clinical benefit. Dosage may have been increased to twice daily if disease worsened and patient was in otherwise good clinical condition.

Study groups in NCT00424515
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Treatment ArmExperimentalImatinib
Receives: Drug: Imatinib

What is being measured

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

  1. Best Overall Response

    Best overall response (BOR) on treatment was based on RECIST 1.0 criteria. For target lesions, complete response (CR) is complete disappearance of all target lesions and partial response (PR) is at least a 30% decrease in the sum of longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference baseline sum LD. CR or PR confirmation required within 4 weeks. Progressive disease (PD) is at least a 20% increase in the sum LD of target lesions from smallest sum LD as reference or the appearance of one or more new lesions. Stable disease (SD) is neither meeting PR or PD. PD for the evaluation of non-target lesions is the appearance of one or more new lesions and/or unequivocal progression of non-target lesions. CR is disappearance of all non-target lesions.

    Measured: Disease was evaluated radiologically at baseline, after 6-weeks, and at 2-month intervals on treatment. Mean treatment duration was 4 months (range 1-11; amplified/mutated 3m/ 6m).

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Time to Progression

    Time to progression (TTP) based on the Kaplan-Meier method is defined as the duration of time from study entry to documented disease progression (PD) requiring removal from the study. Per RECIST 1.0 criteria: progressive disease (PD) is at least a 20% increase in the sum of longest diameter (LD) of target lesions taking as reference the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started or the appearance of one or more new lesions. PD for the evaluation of non-target lesions is the appearance of one or more new lesions and/or unequivocal progression of non-target lesions.

    Measured: Disease was evaluated radiologically at baseline, after 6-weeks, and at 2-month intervals on treatment and every 3 months long-term. Mean treatment duration was 4 months (range 1-11; amplified/mutated 3m/ 6m).

  2. Overall Survival

    Overall survival (OS) is defined as the time from study entry to death or date last known alive.

    Measured: Patients were followed long-term every 3 months until first progression, death or lost to follow-up. Median survival follow-up was 10.6 months (range 3.7-27.1).

Timeline

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

  1. First posted19 Jan 2007 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2006
  3. Primary completionJul 2011
  4. Study completionJul 2011

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
24 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00424515
Sponsor's protocol ID
06-056
Acronym
BUS255
Status last verified
Jun 2016
First submitted
18 Jan 2007
Last updated
8 Dec 2016
Data monitoring committee
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Hodi FS, Corless CL, Giobbie-Hurder A, Fletcher JA, Zhu M, Marino-Enriquez A, Friedlander P, Gonzalez R, Weber JS, Gajewski TF, O'Day SJ, Kim KB, Lawrence D, Flaherty KT, Luke JJ, Collichio FA, Ernstoff MS, Heinrich MC, Beadling C, Zukotynski KA, Yap JT, Van den Abbeele AD, Demetri GD, Fisher DE. Imatinib for melanomas harboring mutationally activated or amplified KIT arising on mucosal, acral, and chronically sun-damaged skin. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Sep 10;31(26):3182-90. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.7836. Epub 2013 Jun 17.

    PubMed 23775962
  • Zukotynski K, Yap JT, Giobbie-Hurder A, Weber J, Gonzalez R, Gajewski TF, O'Day S, Kim K, Hodi FS, Van den Abbeele AD. Metabolic response by FDG-PET to imatinib correlates with exon 11 KIT mutation and predicts outcome in patients with mucosal melanoma. Cancer Imaging. 2014 Nov 12;14(1):30. doi: 10.1186/s40644-014-0030-0.

    PubMed 25609545

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Imatinib in people with Mucosal Melanoma and Acral/Lentiginous Melanoma, run by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at 5 sites 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 14 inclusion and 15 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 8 Dec 2016. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 5 sites 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 8 Dec 2016). 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?

Best Overall Response (time frame: Disease was evaluated radiologically at baseline, after 6-weeks, and at 2-month intervals on treatment. Mean treatment duration was 4 months (range 1-11; amplified/mutated 3m/ 6m).). 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 NCT00424515, which also lists 2 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 8 Dec 2016.

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