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Prostate CancerPhase 3NCT01707966

Orteronel Maintenance Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer and Non-progressive Disease After First-line Docetaxel Therapy

A Phase 3 study testing Orteronel in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Swiss Cancer Institute at 15 sites in Switzerland.

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

The main objective of this multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial is to assess the impact of maintenance orteronel on disease progression and hence on quality of life in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have achieved at lease disease stabilization… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older, men only
Conditions the study is for
Prostate Cancer
What is being tested?
Orteronel
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
47 participants
Where
15 sitesSwitzerland
Study dates
Sep 2012to Jul 2016
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 years and older
  • Men only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patient has given voluntary written informed consent
  • Male patient 18 years or older
  • WHO performance status of ≤2
  • Adenocarcinoma of the prostate
  • Castration resistance: tumor progression after orchiectomy or during treatment with GnRH analogues
  • Metastatic disease, radiographically documented (
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  • Total testosterone ≤ 50 ng/dL
  • Non-progressive disease after docetaxel first-line treatment with a cumulative dose ≥ 300mg/m2
  • No evidence of progression on imaging according to PCWG2 and modified RECIST 1.1 criteria
  • PSA levels not elevated ≥ 25% AND at least 2 ng/mL above the nadir since start of docetaxel treatment
  • Non-surgically castrated patient agrees on ongoing use of GnRH analogues (agonists or antagonists) during the trial
  • PSA ≥ 2 ng/mL; Potassium ≥ 3.5 mmol/L; Neutrophils ≥ 1.5 x 109/L; Platelets ≥ 100 x 10x9/L
  • Normal kidney and liver function
  • Planned start of trial treatment 3 to 6 weeks after last docetaxel administration
  • Screening calculated ejection fraction of ≥ 50% or normal according to local standard by echocardiogram or by multiple gated acquisition (MUGA) scan.
  • Baseline QL questionnaire completed
  • Patient is able and willing to swallow study drug as whole tablet
  • Patient compliance and geographic proximity allow proper staging and follow-up
  • Patient agrees to practice effective barrier contraception or to completely abstain from intercourse

Who cannot join

  • Prior therapy with aminoglutethimide, ketoconazole, orteronel, abiraterone or other modern CYP17 inhibitors
  • Prior chemotherapy for prostate cancer within 12 months before enrollment except from docetaxel
  • Retreatment with docetaxel after interruption of > 5 weeks
  • Concurrent disease requiring higher doses of corticosteroid than the equivalent of 10 mg prednisone per day
  • Known hypersensitivity to trial drug or hypersensitivity to any of its components
  • Patient has received other investigational drugs within 30 days before enrollment
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  • Presence of a small cell component in histological specimen
  • Radiotherapy within the last 2 weeks before expected start of the trial treatment
  • Known history of central nervous system (CNS) or spinal cord metastases
  • Current spinal cord compression
  • Diagnosed or treated for another malignancy within 2 years of registration, with the exception of complete resection of basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or any in situ malignancies
  • History of myocardial infarction, unstable symptomatic ischemic heart disease, ongoing arrhythmias of Grade ≥ 3 (NCI CTCAE version 4.0) or thromboembolic events (e.g., deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or symptomatic cerebrovascular events) within 6 months prior to first dose of study drug. Chronic stable atrial fibrillation on stable anticoagulant therapy is allowed
  • New York Heart Association Class III or IV heart failure
  • ECG abnormalities of:
  • Q-wave infarction, unless identified ≥ 6 months prior to registration
  • QTc interval > 460 msec
  • Uncontrolled hypertension despite appropriate medical therapy
  • Likely inability (e.g. due to a psychiatric disorder) to understand information on trial related topics, to give informed consent, to comply with the protocol, to fill in QL forms and to cooperate fully with the investigator and site personnel
  • Known gastrointestinal (GI) disease or GI procedure that could interfere with the GI absorption or tolerance of orteronel
  • Known active chronic hepatitis B or C, life-threatening illness unrelated to cancer, or any serious medical or psychiatric illness that could, in the investigator's opinion, potentially interfere with participation in this study

Trial locations and contacts

15 sites in 1 country.

15 sites in 1 country

Switzerland15 sites
  • Kantonspital Aarau

    Aarau, CH-5001

  • Universitaetsspital Basel

    Basel, 4031

  • Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana - Ospedale Regionale Bellinzona e Valli

    Bellinzona, 6500

  • Inselspital Bern

    Bern, CH-3010

  • Kantonsspital Graubuenden

    Chur, 7000

  • Kantonsspital Freiburg

    Fribourg, 1708

  • Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève HUG

    Geneva, 1211

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois CHUV

    Lausanne, CH-1011

  • Kantonsspital Luzern

    Lucerne, 6000

  • Spital Männedorf

    Männedorf, 8708

  • Kantonsspital Muensterlingen

    Münsterlingen, 8596

  • Kantonsspital St. Gallen

    Sankt Gallen, 9007

  • SpitalSTS AG Simmental-Thun-Saanenland

    Thun, 3600

  • Kantonsspital Winterthur

    Winterthur, 8401

  • UniversitaetsSpital Zuerich

    Zurich, 8091

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About this study

Official title: Orteronel Maintenance Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer and Non-progressive Disease After First-line Docetaxel Therapy: a Multicenter Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Phase III Trial.

The main objective of this multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial is to assess the impact of maintenance orteronel on disease progression and hence on quality of life in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have achieved at lease disease stabilization after first line chemotherapy with docetaxel.

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Background:

One in six men will be diagnosed with cancer of the prostate during his lifetime. Accordingly, prostate cancer is the most common cancer amongst men in the western world. In Switzerland approximately 5'400 men are diagnosed with the disease and 1'300 die of prostate cancer every year. Prostate cancer represents 30% of all cancer diagnoses in men. Despite earlier detection and new treatments the life time risk to die of prostate cancer has remained stable at 3% since 1980.

Metastatic prostate cancer is hormone-sensitive and therefore androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the treatment of choice. Yet, virtually all patients with metastatic prostate cancer progress on androgen deprivation therapy (so called castration-resistant prostate cancer: CRPC). Further hormonal manipulations are often administered (e.g. maximal androgen blockade with addition of a non-steroidal antiandrogen such as bicalutamide), however these interventions have only modest impact. Metastatic CRPC (mCRPC) that progresses despite these therapies is nowadays treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy. In a phase III trial, treatment of mCRPC patients with docetaxel in combination with low dose prednisone resulted in a significant survival advantage in comparison to the previous standard of care of mitoxantrone plus prednisone. Moreover docetaxel treatment improved response rate, progression free survival and symptom control.

The current standard of care in patients with disease stabilization after first line chemotherapy with docetaxel is a wait-and-watch strategy, where patients are regularly examined in the hospital every 3-4 weeks. A second line chemotherapy in patients with mCRPC was not standardized until recently. However, two trials presented in 2010 have changed the landscape: the novel taxane cabazitaxel was tested in a phase III trial against mitoxantrone as a second line chemotherapy in patients progressing under or after docetaxel. There was a significant improvement in overall survival, progression free survival and response rate. Most of the included patients had experienced disease progression during or within three months of docetaxel first line treatment. Cabazitaxel was associated with increased toxicity including 5% toxic deaths. Another randomized phase III trial using abiraterone in patients with progression after docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival and pain palliation. Abiraterone belongs to a group of agents that very effectively inhibits the androgen synthesis via blockade of the key enzyme cytochrome P-450c17 (CYP17).

The new drug orteronel (TAK-700) belongs to the same group of active substances as abiraterone. Orteronel is currently the subject of a large international Phase III study in patients with metastatic carcinoma of the prostate and progression of disease following docetaxel. Initial results have shown that orteronel effectively inhibits testosterone synthesis and, in contrast to abiraterone, has fewer side effects.

Rational:

CYP17 inhibitors are active and well tolerated agents for treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. However, despite its activity patients become resistant to this new form of antihormonal treatment and hence develop further progression after a median of approximately 6 months. In that case, the options are very limited as outlined above.

In all reported post-docetaxel trials and in the large phase III trials, patients start on the CYP17 inhibitor treatment at the time of disease progression. Trials examining other advanced malignant diseases such as lung cancer have shown that initiating an effective treatment earlier in the disease course at the end of a first-line chemotherapy (so called switch maintenance therapy) is beneficial in terms of progression free survival (PFS) but also overall survival (OS). This may also hold true for early administration of antihormonal agents in patients with mCRPC.

Therefore, the aim of this trial is to test the hypothesis that starting orteronel after disease stabilization with docetaxel prolongs event-free survival (EFS), consequently maintains a good quality of life (QL) and eventually also improves OS.

Conditions
Prostate Cancer
Being tested
Orteronel, Placebo
Keywords
adenocarcinoma of the prostate, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, maintenance therapy, orteronel, TAK-700
Medical subject headings
Prostatic Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • OrteronelDrug

    Also called TAK-700

  • PlaceboDrug

Study groups in NCT01707966
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Orteronel and best supportive careExperimentalArm A: 300mg Orteronel twice daily and best supportive care until occurrence of an event.
Receives: Drug: Orteronel
Placebo and best supportive carePlacebo comparatorArm B: Placebo twice daily and best supportive care until occurrence of an event.
Receives: Drug: Placebo

What is being measured

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

  1. Event free survival (EFS)

    Measured: At baseline; every 4 weeks until disease progression (estimated up to 1 year)

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Adverse events (AEs)

    Measured: Throughout treatment phase (estimated up to 1 year) until 30 days after last drug administration or prior to start of subsequent anticancer treatment (whichever occurs first)

  2. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response (30%, 50%, 90% and best)

    Measured: PSA level at baseline and every 4 weeks until disease progression (estimated up to 1 year)

  3. Time to PSA progression

    Measured: PSA level at baseline and every 4 weeks until disease progression (estimated up to 1 year)

  4. Radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS)

    Measured: Every 12 weeks until disease progression (estimated up to 1 year)

  5. QL and pain response

    Measured: First 6 months of trial treatment

  6. Overall survival (OS)

    Measured: time from trial randomization to the date of death from any cause (estimated up to 4 years)

Timeline

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

  1. First posted16 Oct 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2012
  3. Primary completionSep 2014
  4. Study completionJul 2016

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
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
47 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01707966
Sponsor's protocol ID
SAKK 08/11
Other IDs
2011-002965-39
Status last verified
May 2019
First submitted
13 Sep 2012
Last updated
15 May 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Cathomas R, Crabb SJ, Mark M, Winterhalder R, Rothermundt C, Elliott T, von Burg P, Kenner H, Hayoz S, Vilei SB, Rauch D, Roggero E, Mohaupt MG, Bernhard J, Manetsch G, Gillessen S; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research SAKK. Orteronel Switch Maintenance Therapy in Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer After First-Line Docetaxel: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial (SAKK 08/11). Prostate. 2016 Dec;76(16):1519-1527. doi: 10.1002/pros.23236. Epub 2016 Jul 25.

    PubMed 27457964

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Orteronel in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Swiss Cancer Institute at 15 sites in Switzerland.

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 19 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 15 May 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 15 sites in Switzerland. 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. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. 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?

Event free survival (EFS) (time frame: At baseline; every 4 weeks until disease progression (estimated up to 1 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 NCT01707966, which also lists 1 linked publication.

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 15 May 2019.

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