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Hepatocellular CarcinomaPhase 3NCT01259414

Comparison of Two Solvents Used With Chemotherapy Agent for Transarterial Chemoembolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

A Phase 3 study testing Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol and Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Sun Yat-sen University at 1 site in China.

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

TACE is considered the standard treatment for unresectable HCC and is widely used as a palliative treatment. However there is no consensus of the protocol of TACE.One of the variation is does the stability of the suspension by emulsified the lipiodol and the contrast medium used to dissolve the anticancer agents… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
What is being tested?
Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol and Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
812 participants
Where
1 siteChina
Study dates
Jan 2011to Jan 2017
Phase
Phase 3
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 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Male or female patients > 18 years and <=70 years of age with a diagnosis of HCC
  • BCLC B stage disease
  • Not amendable to surgical resection ,local ablative therapy and any other cured treatment.
  • Patients must have at least one tumor lesion that can be accurately measured according to EASL criteria. The lesion has not been previously treated with TACE, surgery, radiation therapy, radiofrequency ablation, percutaneous ethanol or acetic acid injection, or cryoablation.
  • No Cirrhosis or cirrhotic status of Child-Pugh class A only
  • Not pregnant or breast-feeding patients
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  • No significant renal impairment (creatinine clearance < 30 mL/minute) or patients on dialysis
  • The following laboratory parameters:
  • Platelet count ≥ 60,000/µL
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 8.5 g/dL
  • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL Serum albumin ≥ 35 g/L
  • ASL and AST ≤ 5 x upper limit of normal
  • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal
  • INR ≤ 1.5 or PT/APTT within normal limits
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >1,500/mm3
  • Ability to understand the protocol and to agree to and sign a written informed consent document

Who cannot join

  • Known history of HIV
  • History of organ allograft
  • Known or suspected allergy to the investigational agents or any agent given in association with this trial.
  • Cardiac ventricular arrhythmias requiring anti-arrhythmic therapy
  • Evidence of bleeding diathesis.
  • Patients with clinically significant gastrointestinal bleeding within 30 days prior to study entry.
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  • Any other hemorrhage/bleeding event > CTCAE Grade 3 within 4 weeks of first dose of study drug
  • Serious non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
  • Known central nervous system tumors including metastatic brain disease
  • severe Arterioportal Shunts or Arteria vein Shunts

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

China1 site

  • Cancer Center Sun Yat-sen University

    Guangzhou, Guangdong

Other trials in China

About this study

TACE is considered the standard treatment for unresectable HCC and is widely used as a palliative treatment. However there is no consensus of the protocol of TACE.One of the variation is does the stability of the suspension by emulsified the lipiodol and the contrast medium used to dissolve the anticancer agents really effect the survival.Thus the investigators conduct this prospective,randomized controlled study to find out if the different method of preparing chemotheraputic drugs can cause a different survival benefit.

Read the detailed description

Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization is currently the mainstays of palliative treatments worldwide for patients with unresectable HCC. However there is no standard protocol exists for TACE currently. One of the controversy is does the way of emulsified the anticancer agents and lipiodol to get a high stability suspension really effect the survival rates.

Anticancer drugs play important role in survival benefit. Many studies have innovated different methods to get a high stability suspension of lipiodol and anticancer drugs ,because they think lipiodol can selectively retained in HCC and used as a drug-carrying which allow a slow release of the anticancer drug from lipiodol microdroplets. Thus ,A stability suspension might get a maximize tumor drug uptake,which can caused a more tumor necrosis, and minimize systemic drug levels ,which get a less toxicity, hence survival benefit. While the other researcher think a stability emulsion can't get a positive effect ,such as pharmacokinetic and systematic toxicity of the anticancer drugs, tumor response, biologic response and so on.

Being tested
Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol, Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol
Keywords
Carcinoma,Hepatocellular, Liver Neoplasms, Survival analysis, treatment outcome, administration drugs, Chemoembolization,, TACE, polyvinyl alcohol, water-soluble contrast mesium, iopamidol, lipiodol, distilled water
Medical subject headings
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Liver Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodolOther

    TACE with chemotherapy drugs (EADM 50mg, lobaplatin 50mg, and MMC 6mg)dissolved in distilled water and emulsified lipiodol followed embolization with polyvinyl alcohol particles (PVA)

  • Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodolOther

    TACE with chemotherapy drugs (EADM 50mg, lobaplatin 50mg, and MMC 6mg)dissolved in water-soluble contrast medium and distilled water,then emulsified with lipiodol followed embolization with polyvinyl alcohol particles (PVA)

Study groups in NCT01259414
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
group1ExperimentalChemoembolization with solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol
Receives: Other: Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol
group2ExperimentalChemoembolization with Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol
Receives: Other: Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol

What is being measured

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

  1. overall survival

    Measured: 3 year

Secondary outcomes (1)

  1. Time to progression

    Measured: 3 year

Timeline

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

  1. First posted14 Dec 2010 (estimated)
  2. Study startJan 2011
  3. Primary completionJan 2017
  4. Study completionJan 2017

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 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Triple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
812 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01259414
Sponsor's protocol ID
HCC2011A
Status last verified
Mar 2019
First submitted
13 Dec 2010
Last updated
6 Mar 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Shin SW. The current practice of transarterial chemoembolization for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Korean J Radiol. 2009 Sep-Oct;10(5):425-34. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2009.10.5.425. Epub 2009 Aug 25.

    PubMed 19721826

  • Lo CM, Ngan H, Tso WK, Liu CL, Lam CM, Poon RT, Fan ST, Wong J. Randomized controlled trial of transarterial lipiodol chemoembolization for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology. 2002 May;35(5):1164-71. doi: 10.1053/jhep.2002.33156.

    PubMed 11981766

  • Llovet JM, Real MI, Montana X, Planas R, Coll S, Aponte J, Ayuso C, Sala M, Muchart J, Sola R, Rodes J, Bruix J; Barcelona Liver Cancer Group. Arterial embolisation or chemoembolisation versus symptomatic treatment in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2002 May 18;359(9319):1734-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08649-X.

    PubMed 12049862

  • Raoul JL, Heresbach D, Bretagne JF, Ferrer DB, Duvauferrier R, Bourguet P, Messner M, Gosselin M. Chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinomas. A study of the biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of doxorubicin. Cancer. 1992 Aug 1;70(3):585-90. doi: 10.1002/1097-0142(19920801)70:33.0.co;2-#.

    PubMed 1320447

  • Bruix J, Sherman M; Practice Guidelines Committee, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Management of hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology. 2005 Nov;42(5):1208-36. doi: 10.1002/hep.20933. No abstract available.

    PubMed 16250051

  • Takaki Y, Kaminou T, Shabana M, Ihaya T, Otsubo K, Ogawa T. Suitable blending method of lipiodol-cisplatin in transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: evaluation of sustained release and accumulation nature. Hepatogastroenterology. 2008 Jan-Feb;55(81):202-6.

    PubMed 18507107

  • de Baere T, Zhang X, Aubert B, Harry G, Lagrange C, Ropers J, Dufaux J, Lumbroso J, Rougier P, Ducreux M, Roche A. Quantification of tumor uptake of iodized oils and emulsions of iodized oils: experimental study. Radiology. 1996 Dec;201(3):731-5. doi: 10.1148/radiology.201.3.8939223.

    PubMed 8939223

  • Takayasu K, Shima Y, Muramatsu Y, Moriyama N, Yamada T, Makuuchi M, Hasegawa H, Hirohashi S. Hepatocellular carcinoma: treatment with intraarterial iodized oil with and without chemotherapeutic agents. Radiology. 1987 May;163(2):345-51. doi: 10.1148/radiology.163.2.3031724.

    PubMed 3031724

  • Tzeng WS, Wu RH, Chang SC, Chou CK, Lin CY, Chen JJ, Yang SC, Lin CH. Ionic versus nonionic contrast media solvents used with an epirubicin-based agent for transarterial chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008 Mar;19(3):342-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.10.021.

    PubMed 18295692

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Solvent with specific gravity less than lipiodol and Solvent with specific gravity equivalent to lipiodol in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Sun Yat-sen University at 1 site in China.

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 10 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 6 Mar 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 China. 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 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

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?

overall survival (time frame: 3 year). 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 NCT01259414, which also lists 9 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 6 Mar 2019.

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