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Myeloproliferative NeoplasmsPhase 1/2NCT02076191

Study of Combination Ruxolitinib and Decitabine Treatment for Accelerated Phase MPN or Post-MPN AML

A Phase 1/2 study testing Ruxolitinib and Decitabine in people with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, run by John Mascarenhas at 8 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 test the safety and tolerability of ruxolitinib at different dose levels in combination with decitabine and the effectiveness of ruxolitinib in combination with decitabine in patients with accelerated or blast phase Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN), which is a group of diseases of the… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
What is being tested?
Ruxolitinib and Decitabine
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
49 participants
Where
8 sitesUnited States
Study dates
Feb 2014to 20 Jul 2018
Phase
Phase 1/2
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

  • Accelerated phase MPN as defined by 10%-19% blasts in the peripheral blood or bone marrow and evidence of dysplastic marrow features with a concomitant diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV) or primary myelofibrosis (PMF) or a diagnosis of acute myelogenous leukemia as defined by 20% blasts in the blood or bone marrow following a previous diagnosis of ET, PV or PMF.
  • >18 years of age
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance status of 0-2. Patients with ECOG performance status of 3 will be eligible if the lower performance status is deemed by the investigator to be due entirely to accelerated or blastic phase MPN and not due to another comorbidity.
  • Acceptable pre-study organ function during screening as defined as: Total bilirubin < 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) unless due to Gilbert's disease or hemolysis, Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 times ULN, Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN
  • Women of childbearing potential and males must agree to use adequate contraception (i.e., hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Should a female subject become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform the treating physician immediately.
  • Patients who are not candidates for or have declined an allograft.
  • Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

Who cannot join

  • Have had chemotherapy or investigational therapy, with the exception of hydroxyurea, within 4 weeks of study entry. Previous treatment with either ruxolitinib or decitabine as single agents will not exclude eligibility. Previous stem cell transplant will also not exclude eligibility as long as other inclusion/exclusion criteria have been met.
  • Patients with acute myelofibrosis are excluded.
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive subjects receiving combination antiretroviral therapy, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, ventricular arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • Other medications, severe acute/chronic medical or psychiatric conditions, or laboratory abnormalities that may increase the risk associated with study participation or study drug administration, or may interfere with the interpretation of study results, that in the judgment of the Investigator would make the subject inappropriate for entry into this study.

Trial locations and contacts

8 sites in 1 country.

8 sites in 1 country

United States8 sites
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    Buffalo, New York, 14263

  • Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center Institute

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    New York, New York, 10029

  • Columbia University Medical Center

    New York, New York, 10032

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10065

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Washington University of St. Louis

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

  • Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157

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About this study

Official title: Multicenter Phase I/II Trial of Ruxolitinib in Combination With Decitabine in Patients With Accelerated Phase Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) or Post-MPN AML

The purpose of this study is to test the safety and tolerability of ruxolitinib at different dose levels in combination with decitabine and the effectiveness of ruxolitinib in combination with decitabine in patients with accelerated or blast phase Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN), which is a group of diseases of the bone marrow in which excess cells are produced. Ruxolitinib is a drug that is approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with advanced forms of myelofibrosis. It inhibits the Jak proteins that are often abnormal in MPN. A recent clinical study showed that ruxolitinib treatment could put some patients with this disease into remission. Decitabine is a chemotherapy, approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), that has been used to treat acute leukemia. It works in some patients, but most patients with accelerated and blastic MPN do not respond to treatment. Ruxolitinib and decitabine will be combined in this study to find out what dose of the two medicines are safe together. Using Ruxolitinib in combination with Decitabine is experimental. The investigators want to find out what effects, good and/or bad it has on the patient and the disease.

Read the detailed description

At this time, there is no standard medical treatment for MF-BP or MF-AP. The investigators believe that the combination of ruxolitinib and DEC is a candidate approach to the treatment of MF-BP/MF-AP that is worthy of exploration based on both the current understanding of the biology of disease and emerging preclinical data. The molecular pathogenesis of MPN and progression to blast phase is almost certainly due to a complex combination of gene mutations (JAK2V617F, MPL) and epigenetic alterations (IDH1/2, IKZF1, EZH2, TET2) that culminate in the emergence of leukemic clones. Recent evidence indicates that the JAK2V617F protein can localize in the nucleus and influence global DNA methylation patterns which may lead to genomic instability and disease progression. The inhibition of JAK-STAT mediated cell proliferation and survival in conjunction with the reversal of DNA hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes would be predicted to have at least an additive if not synergistic effect in inducing apoptosis of cells belonging to the malignant myeloid clone. Correlative studies conducted within a trial of Private and Confidential MPD-RC 109 Ruxolitinib + Decitabine combination JAK2 inhibitor and DMNT1 inhibitor in patients with MPN-BP would explore the effect on methylation status of various gene promoters as well as the influence on gene expression of chromatin related proteins and ultimately leukemic cell survival. The sequential administration of a JAK2 inhibitor followed by a DNMT inhibitor would also potentially serve to overcome the JAK2-independent effects of epigenetic lesions that lead to MPN-BP. In addition, a murine model of leukemic transformation has been described. In this model, bone marrow obtained from Tp53 null mice is retrovirally transduced with Jak2V617F, and transplanted into donor C56BL/6 mice. The transplanted mice develop an MPN which progresses to AML. In vitro drug studies utilizing bone marrow from these leukemic mice have demonstrated that exposure to decitabine or ruxolitinib inhibits colony formation in a methylcellulose colony-forming assay. Importantly, the combination of decitabine and ruxolitinib in this assay significantly reduces colony formation when compared to either drug alone (Rampal et al. ASH 2012 oral abstract 808) thus providing pre-clinical evidence for the combination study proposed here.

Being tested
Ruxolitinib, Decitabine
Keywords
Ruxolitinib, Decitabine, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Combination Therapy
Medical subject headings
Myeloproliferative Disorders

What participants receive

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

  • RuxolitinibDrug

    Ruxolitinib will be administered at doses of 5mg, 10mg, 15mg, or 25 mg taken orally every 12 hours throughout the treatment cycle.

  • DecitabineDrug

    Decitabine is administered intravenously at a dose of 20 mg/m2 daily for 5 days. Subsequent cycles of decitabine may be administered at 4 week intervals as clinically tolerated. Decitabine treatment may be deferred for up to 2 weeks to allow recovery from non-hematologic toxicity during the first 6 cycles and up to 2 weeks thereafter for hematologic toxicities as well. The first treatment cycle will last 35 days and will be the evaluable period for DLTs and RPTD determination for patients enrolled in the phase I portion only. Subsequent treatment cycles will be 4-6 weeks in duration as defined by decitabine administration.

Study groups in NCT02076191
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Myeloproliferative neoplasmsExperimentalIn phase I, increasing doses of ruxolitinib in combination with decitabine at a dose of 20 mg/m2 daily intravenously over 5 days. An initial dose of ruxolitinib of 10 mg orally twice daily is anticipated with planned, dose escalations of 15 mg orally twice daily, 25 mg orally twice daily and 50 mg orally twice daily. The dose can also be de-escalated to 5mg orally twice daily if dose limiting toxicities (DLTs) are observed at the initial 10mg dose. Patients will receive ruxolitinib as a single agent for the first 7 days followed by the administration of decitabine on day 8 for a total of 5 consecutive days. Patients will continue ruxolitinib at the assigned dose through the first cycle and may reduce the dose for specified toxicity beginning with the second cycle. Patients in Phase II will start at the recommended phase II dose (RPTD) of ruxolitinib in combination with decitabine at a dose of 20 mg/m2 daily intravenously over 5 days.
Receives: Drug: Ruxolitinib; Drug: Decitabine

What is being measured

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

  1. Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD)

    Safety and efficacy of ruxolitinib when used in combination with decitabine. MTD is defined as the highest dose studied for which the incidence of (Dose Limiting Toxicities) DLT is at least 33%.

    Measured: up to 5 weeks

  2. Dose Limiting Toxicities (DLT)

    Safety and efficacy of ruxolitinib when used in combination with decitabine. DLTs will be defined as those adverse events occurring in the first 5 weeks after initiation of therapy that are not clearly related to disease.

    Measured: up to 5 weeks

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Recommended Phase II Dose (RPTD)

    Safety and tolerability of drug combination of ruxolitinib and decitabine. RPTD is that dose level below the MTD for which the incidence of DLT is <33%.

    Measured: up to 20 weeks

Timeline

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

  1. First posted3 Mar 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study startFeb 2014
  3. Primary completion20 Jul 2018
  4. Study completion20 Jul 2018

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 1/2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
49 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02076191
Sponsor's protocol ID
GCO 13-1816
Other IDs
MPD-RC 109, P01CA108671
Status last verified
Feb 2019
First submitted
27 Feb 2014
Last updated
28 Feb 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Mascarenhas JO, Rampal RK, Kosiorek HE, Bhave R, Hexner E, Wang ES, Gerds A, Abboud CN, Kremyanskaya M, Berenzon D, Odenike O, Farnoud N, Krishnan A, Weinberg RS, McGovern E, Salama ME, Najfeld V, Medina-Martinez JS, Arango Ossa JE, Levine MF, Zhou Y, Sandy L, Heaney ML, Levine RL, Mesa RA, Dueck AC, Hoffman R. Phase 2 study of ruxolitinib and decitabine in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasm in accelerated and blast phase. Blood Adv. 2020 Oct 27;4(20):5246-5256. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002119.

    PubMed 33104796

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing Ruxolitinib and Decitabine in people with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, run by John Mascarenhas at 8 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 7 inclusion and 4 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 28 Feb 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 8 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 combined 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.

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?

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?

Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) (time frame: up to 5 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT02076191, 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 28 Feb 2019.

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