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Myelodysplastic SyndromePhase 1NCT01169012

PK Study of Oral and IV Clofarabine in High Risk Myelodysplasia+Acute Leukemias

A Phase 1 study testing Clofarabine in people with Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia, run by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 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 non-blinded, non-randomized pharmacokinetic study to determine the oral bioavailability of clofarabine, and the effect of cimetidine on clofarabine pharmacokinetics in patients with poor-risk acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Clofarabine
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
13 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Sep 2010to Jan 2013
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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

  • MDS patients age 18 and older with IPSS risk of intermediate-2 who have failed ≥ 1 prior regimen with a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, or have ≥ 10% bone marrow myeloblasts
  • MDS patients age 18 and older with IPSS high risk
  • Patients with CMML (chronic myelomonocytic leukemia) age 18 and older
  • Untreated AML or Ph-negative ALL patients age 60 and over who are deemed not to be candidates for intensive anthracycline based induction therapies based on age, organ function or co-morbidities
  • AML or Ph-negative ALL patients age 60 and over who have failed or relapsed following initial induction therapy
  • Provide signed written informed consent.
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  • Capable of understanding the investigational nature, potential risks and benefits of the study, and able to provide valid informed consent.
  • Have adequate renal and hepatic functions as indicated by the following laboratory values:
  • Serum creatinine </= 1.0 mg/dL; if serum creatinine >1.0 mg/dL, then the estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) must be >60 mL/min as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault equation:
  • GFR (mL/min) = (140 - age) X (weight in kg) X (0.85 if female)/ 72 X serum creatinine in mg/mL
  • Serum bilirubin ≤1.5 mg/dL × upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Aspartate transaminase (AST)/alanine transaminase (ALT) </=2.5 × ULN
  • Alkaline phosphatase 2.5 × ULN
  • Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 1 week prior to enrollment.
  • Male and female patients must use an effective contraceptive method during the study and for a minimum of 6 months after study treatment.
  • INR ≤ 1.5 and APTT within the upper limits of normal (Patients on therapeutic anticoagulation will be allowed to participate if anticoagulation can be changed to parenteral medication or discontinued when platelet count is <50x109/liter)

Who cannot join

  • Current concomitant chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or immunotherapy other than as specified in the protocol.
  • Use of investigational agents within 30 days or any anticancer therapy within 2 weeks before study entry with the exception of hydroxyurea. The patient must have recovered from all acute toxicities from any previous therapy.
  • Have any other severe concurrent disease, or have a history of serious organ dysfunction or disease involving the heart, kidney, liver, or other organ system that may place the patient at undue risk to undergo treatment.
  • Patients with a systemic fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infection not controlled (defined as exhibiting ongoing signs/symptoms related to the infection and without improvement, despite appropriate antibiotics or other treatment).
  • Pregnant or lactating patients.
  • Any significant concurrent disease, illness, or psychiatric disorder that would compromise patient safety or compliance, interfere with consent, study participation, follow up, or interpretation of study results.
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  • Abnormal organ function as defined by ALT, AST or total bilirubin >1.5 x ULN, GFR< 60mL/minute by MDRD equation
  • Active cardiac disease as manifest by: >class II NYHA congestive heart failure, unstable angina or myocardial infarction within the last 6 months
  • Hemorrhage or bleeding >/= CTCAE grade 3 within 4 weeks of enrollment
  • Pulmonary hemorrhage >/= CTCAE grade 2 within 4 weeks of enrollment
  • HIV infection
  • Active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C infection (defined as measurable viral load by PCR, or liver function abnormalities attributed to viral hepatitis)
  • Cerebrovascular accident or transient ischemic attack within 6 months of study enrollment.
  • Non-healing wound or ulcer, or major surgery or trauma within 4 weeks of study enrollment
  • Active graft versus host disease of any grade
  • Active CNS disease that will require radiation therapy.
  • Suspected or confirmed hypersensitivity to cimetidine or other histamine H2 antagonists.
  • Have currently active gastrointestinal disease, or prior surgery that may affect the ability of the patient to absorb oral clofarabine.
  • Have had a diagnosis of another malignancy, unless the patient has been disease-free for at least 3 years following the completion of curative intent therapy, with the following exceptions:
  • Patients with treated non-melanoma skin cancer, in situ carcinoma, or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, regardless of the disease-free duration, are eligible for this study if definitive treatment for the condition has been completed.
  • Patients with organ-confined prostate cancer with no evidence of recurrent or progressive disease based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values are also eligible for this study if hormonal therapy has been initiated or a radical prostatectomy has been performed.
  • Medical indication for therapy with one of the previously-documented human OCT2 inhibitors (table 4), for which cessation of the OCT2 inhibitor or conversion to an alternate agent would pose unacceptable risk to the patient

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599

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About this study

Official title: A Pharmacokinetic Study of Oral and Intravenous Clofarabine in Patients With High Risk Myelodysplasia and Acute Leukemias - Determination of Oral Bioavailability and the Effect of Cimetidine on Clofarabine Clearance

This is a non-blinded, non-randomized pharmacokinetic study to determine the oral bioavailability of clofarabine, and the effect of cimetidine on clofarabine pharmacokinetics in patients with poor-risk acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

Read the detailed description

Clofarabine is a second-generation adenosine nucleoside analog with activity in hematologic malignancies. It has gained FDA-approval for use in children with relapsed-refractory ALL, and early phase studies have shown activity in patients with AML and MDS. Clofarabine's activity in acute leukemias and MDS has been established in multiple phase I and II studies, both alone and in combination with cytosine arabinoside (araC), and in both relapsed-refractory patients, and untreated older adults.

Pharmacokinetic investigations comparing I.V. and P.O. dosing within the same patient have not been performed. Furthermore, the effect of OCT2 inhibition on clofarabine pharmacokinetics in humans has not been investigated. The potential for enhanced drug exposure and toxicity in the setting of OCT2 inhibition is of clinical importance as clofarabine gains broader indications in hematologic oncology. In particular, bioavailability and the OCT2 mechanism are important with prolonged drug exposure and oral administration in older adults, who are likely to have impaired renal function and take other drugs that interact with OCT2 such as metformin (a substrate) and trimethoprim (one of several inhibitors). OCT2 is expressed on several solid tumor cell lines, and is thought to play a role in tumor uptake of cationic cytotoxins. Whether OCT2 or other transporters are expressed on leukemic blasts, or influence drug uptake has not been investigated. However, variation in the expression of drug transporters could be one of several mechanistic explanations for the fact that clofarabine-responsive patients accumulate intracellular clofarabine triphosphate, whereas non-responders do not.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms have been identified in the gene encoding OCT2, which may influence substrate uptake or inhibitor potency. Such polymorphisms may explain variation in clofarabine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics between individuals, but the potential for this phenomenon has not previously been investigated.

Patients will receive clofarabine as induction therapy in five doses. Initially, and unless dose escalation or de-escalation criteria are met, patients will be assigned to dose level 0 (IV Clofarabine 15mg/m2; Oral clofarabine 30mg/m2). The first three doses (on days 1, 3 and 5) will be administered followed by washout periods that extend until the next clofarabine dose is administered. During the washout periods, frequent phlebotomy for PK sampling will be performed in an outpatient setting at the UNC Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC). The duration of the induction period will be determined by time to recovery of hematologic toxicity (platelets >50 x 109/liter, ANC >1.0x109/liter).

AML patients achieving CR, and MDS patients achieving CR, PR or hematologic improvement will receive additional consolidation cycles of oral clofarabine daily on days 1 through 5 of each subsequent cycle, with clofarabine dose according to assigned dose level (0: 30 mg/m2, -1: 20 mg/m2, +1: 40 mg/m2). Consolidation cycles will begin no sooner than 28 days after the first day of the previous clofarabine cycle. Patients will be evaluated for response after each cycle, and will be continued on trial for up to 6 total cycles of therapy as long as a response or lack of progression is maintained and no Grade 3-4 non-hematologic toxicities have been observed in that patient.

Being tested
Clofarabine
Keywords
Myelodysplastic syndrome, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, Clofarabine, Clolar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Medical subject headings
Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic

What participants receive

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

  • ClofarabineDrug

    Also called Clolar (intravenous clofarabine), Tagemet

    Intravenous Clofarabine (10mg/m2) Oral clofarabine (30mg/m2) Cimetidine (800mg)

Study groups in NCT01169012
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Single Arm TrialOtherSingle Arm Trial
Receives: Drug: Clofarabine

What is being measured

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

  1. Define human intra-patient bioavailability of clofarabine; Compare the pharmacokinetics of intravenously-administered clofarabine when administered alone, with the pharmacokinetics of clofarabine when co-administered with cimetidine, an OCT2 inhibitor.

    Regarding primary endpoints, each patient will generate pharmacokinetic data sufficient to compute area under the concentration versus time curve (AUC) and clearance (Cl) for each of the initial three clofarabine doses (IV, PO and IV administered after cimetidine) for each patient.

    These values will be used to compute the human oral bioavailability of clofarabine and compare AUC and Cl of clofarabine when given after cimetidine with AUC and Cl of clofarabine when administered alone

    Measured: 4 years

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Examine safety of orally-administered clofarabine; Examine the safety of a combined intravenous and oral clofarabine regimen

    Regarding secondary objectives, safety will be evaluated by grading and reporting all adverse experiences during protocol therapy.

    The DLT rate of ≤ 20% is considered to be acceptable.

    Measured: 5 Years

  2. Examine efficacy of orally-administered clofarabine

    Response to therapy will be determined at the time of hematologic reconstitution (platelets >50 x 109/liter, ANC >1.0x109/liter for MDS patients or platelets >100 x 109/liter, ANC >1.0x109/liter for leukemia patients) or day 28, whichever is sooner by complete blood count with differential and bone marrow aspirate, biopsy and cytogenetics.

    Measured: 5 years

  3. Explore the influence of OCT2-encoding single nucleotide polymorphisms on clofarabine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

    The effect of previously-described OCT2 polymorphisms on clofarabine pharmacokinetics will be investigated in an exploratory study. If specific OCT2-encoding single nucleotide polymorphisms are detected in study subjects, the geometric mean AUC and Cl of clofarabine in such patients will be compared with the geometric mean AUC and Cl in patients with wild-type OCT2.

    Measured: 5 years

Timeline

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

  1. First posted23 Jul 2010 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2010
  3. Primary completionApr 2012
  4. Study completionJan 2013

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 1
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
13 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01169012
Sponsor's protocol ID
LCCC 0909
Other IDs
10-0256
Status last verified
Aug 2017
First submitted
22 Jul 2010
Last updated
22 Aug 2017
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing Clofarabine in people with Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia, run by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 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 16 inclusion and 22 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 22 Aug 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?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

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

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

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?

Define human intra-patient bioavailability of clofarabine; Compare the pharmacokinetics of intravenously-administered clofarabine when administered alone, with the pharmacokinetics of clofarabine when co-administered with cimetidine, an OCT2 inhibitor. (time frame: 4 years). 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 22 Aug 2017.

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