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Carcinoma, Small Cell LungPhase 3REPLATINUMNCT03699956

RRx-001 Sequentially With a Platinum Doublet or a Platinum Doublet in Third-Line or Beyond in Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer

A Phase 3 study testing RRx-001 + eLOOP Device and Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide in people with Carcinoma, Small Cell Lung, run by EpicentRx, Inc. at 18 sites in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

This Phase 3 study aims to find out whether RRx-001 + platinum chemotherapy is more effective than platinum chemotherapy alone in 3rd line or beyond small cell cancer. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 79 years
Conditions the study is for
Carcinoma, Small Cell Lung
What is being tested?
RRx-001 + eLOOP Device and Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
18 participants
Where
18 sitesUnited States
Study dates
24 Dec 2018to 1 Mar 2024
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 79 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age ≥ 18 and < 80 years
  • Prior platinum treatment is required
  • Prior treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor is required unless contraindicated. Maintenance with a checkpoint inhibitor is NOT required
  • Patient must have received at least 2 prior lines of therapy
  • Biopsy confirmation of small cell lung cancer
  • Capable of providing informed consent and complying with trial procedures
  • Measurable disease by RECIST 1.1. Measurable lesions will be confirmed by imaging (CT scan)
  • PS 0-1

Who cannot join

  • Symptomatic central nervous system metastases or neurologically unstable patients that are on increasing steroid dose.
  • The presence of another primary malignancy (excluding in situ of the cervix or basal carcinoma of the skin)
  • Treatment of SCLC with any antineoplastic agent with the exception of steroids.
  • Patients with clinically significant illnesses which would compromise participation in the study, including, but not limited to active or uncontrolled infection, immune deficiencies, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, certain heart conditions, or mental illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • History of an allergic reaction to previously received platinum-based regimen, or history of having to discontinue previously received platinum-based regimen secondary to toxicity (excluding hematologic toxicity)
  • Any clinical laboratory findings, which give reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the use of any study medication or renders the patient at high risk from treatment
  • Uncontrolled or symptomatic pleural or pericardial effusion
  • Pregnant or nursing. There is a potential for congenital abnormalities and for this regimen to harm nursing infants

Trial locations and contacts

18 sites in 1 country.

18 sites in 1 country

United States18 sites
  • University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21201

  • Rush University Medical Center

    Chicago, Illinois, 60612

  • Centura Health Research Center

    Denver, Colorado, 80210

  • Millennium Oncology

    Houston, Texas, 77090

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

    Jackson, Mississippi, 39213

  • Tennessee Cancer Specialists

    Knoxville, Tennessee, 37909

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    Lebanon, New Hampshire, 03756

  • Norton Cancer Institute, Norton Healthcare Pavilion

    Louisville, Kentucky, 40202

  • Stephenson Cancer Center

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104

  • Oncology Hematology West PC dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists

    Omaha, Nebraska, 68124

  • Mid Florida Hematology and Oncology Center

    Orange City, Florida, 32763

  • AdventHealth Hematology and Oncology

    Orlando, Florida, 32804

  • Utah Cancer Specialist

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84106

  • Washington University School of Medicine - Siteman Cancer Center

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.

    Tampa, Florida, 33612

  • Cotton O'Neil Clinical Research Center.Hematology & Oncology

    Topeka, Kansas, 66606

  • HOPE Cancer Center of East Texas

    Tyler, Texas, 75701

  • The University of Kansas Cancer Center

    Westwood, Kansas, 66205

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About this study

Official title: A Phase 3, Controlled, Open-label, Randomized Study of RRx-001 Administered Sequentially With a Platinum Doublet or a Platinum Doublet in Third-Line or Beyond Small Cell Lung Cancer

This Phase 3 study aims to find out whether RRx-001 + platinum chemotherapy is more effective than platinum chemotherapy alone in 3rd line or beyond small cell cancer.

Read the detailed description

Small cell cancer (SCC), which mostly arises in the lungs but also in other parts of the body as well such as the prostate and the intestines, is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer; in fact, SCC is so aggressive that in 2012 Congress designated it a recalcitrant or difficult-to-treat cancer, along with pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma or GBM, a primary tumor of the brain, which share the terrible "distinction" of having a 5 year survival rate less than 50%.

One of the main reasons that SCC is so recalcitrant or difficult-to-treat has to do with the development of resistance. Almost all cancers (and SCC is no exception) are treated according to lines of therapy. A line of therapy is a particular course of treatment or treatment regimen. So, in SCC, the first line of treatment is a platinum doublet, with the word doublet meaning two, and consists of the double chemotherapy regimen of cisplatin or carboplatin + etoposide. Most patients initially respond well to the platinum doublet but unavoidably, as a matter of course, resistance to treatment develops and, with that development, a new treatment in second line is started. The same pattern is followed in later lines of therapy: resistance in second line leads to the start of another treatment in 3rd line, and with resistance in 3rd line, which is, unfortunately, just as inevitable, and usually happens even sooner, since the later the line of therapy the more aggressive the tumor, a 4th line treatment is started and so on and so forth until, eventually, no lines of treatment are left. The implicit or unwritten rule in cancer therapy is that once resistance occurs on a particular treatment that same treatment is never reintroduced or restarted.

RRx-001 is a form of immunotherapy that has the potential to overturn this unwritten rule by sensitizing tumors, in other words, by making them more sensitive to the platinum doublet that they received in first line. This is very important because, as previously stated, the platinum doublet is usually the most effective therapy, so it is a benefit to patients if sensitivity to the platinum doublet is restored or increased (even in cases where no response ever occurred) and now they respond as if they were in 1st line rather than in 3rd line or beyond.

In this study, which is called REPLATINUM, because patients will be reintroduced to or restarted on a platinum doublet, there is a 50% chance of receiving either RRx-001 + platinum doublet in Arm 1 or a platinum doublet without RRx-001 in Arm 2. However, patients in arm 2 whose cancer progresses or gets worse (as determined by imaging scans), have the opportunity to "cross-over" to Arm 1 and receive RRx-001 + platinum doublet until such time as their cancer progresses. In this way, all patients, even those on Arm 2, are potentially eligible to be treated with RRx-001.

Being tested
RRx-001 + eLOOP Device, Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide
Keywords
RRx-001, Lung Cancer, Lung Neoplasms, Phase 3, Immunotherapy, Small Cell Carcinoma
Medical subject headings
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, Lung Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Small Cell

What participants receive

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

  • RRx-001 + eLOOP DeviceCombination product

    RRx-001 is a small molecule anticancer drug which is mixed with patient's own blood using the eLOOP device

  • Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposideDrug

    Standard of care platinum doublet chemotherapy

Study groups in NCT03699956
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Arm 1ExperimentalRRx-001 + eLOOP Device 4 mg IV infusion once weekly for 3 weeks Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide (up to 4 cycles): 1. Cisplatin or Carboplatin: 1. Cisplatin initially dosed at 60 mg/m2 on Day 1 every 3 weeks OR 2. Carboplatin initially dosed at an AUC (area under the curve) of 5 on Day 1 every 3 weeks 2. Etoposide to be given per the initial approval by the package insert (USPI FDA) at 100 mg/m2 Days 1-3 every 3 weeks
Receives: Combination Product: RRx-001 + eLOOP Device; Drug: Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide
Arm 2Active comparatorCisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide (up to 4 cycles): 1. Cisplatin or Carboplatin: 1. Cisplatin initially dosed at 60 mg/m2 on Day 1 every 3 weeks OR 2. Carboplatin initially dosed at an AUC of 5 on Day 1 every 3 weeks 2. Etoposide to be given per the initial approval by the package insert (USPI FDA) at 100 mg/m2 Days 1-3 every 3 weeks
Receives: Drug: Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide

What is being measured

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

  1. Progression Free Survival

    The time from the date of randomization to disease progression (radiologic and/or symptomatic per RECIST 1.1) or death from any cause

    Measured: Estimated up to 12 Months

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Overall Survival

    The time from randomization to death from any cause

    Measured: Estimated up to 12 Months

  2. Overall response rate

    The proportion of patients with a complete response or a partial response (per RECIST 1.1)

    Measured: Estimated up to 12 Months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted9 Oct 2018
  2. Study start24 Dec 2018
  3. Primary completion11 Aug 2022
  4. Study completion1 Mar 2024

Why it stopped: RRx-001 will be studied under a new global, phase 3 clinical trial

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
Crossover
Model description
In this study, patients will be randomized to 1 of 2 groups or arms. Patients in Arm 1 will receive the study drug, RRx-001, once a week for 3 weeks followed by up to 4 cycles of platinum doublet (platinum plus etoposide) chemotherapy. Patients with stable disease or better will go on to the Platinum Stacking Phase and will receive RRx-001 once a week for 2 weeks followed by 2 cycles of single agent platinum chemotherapy in a repeating pattern until such time as their cancer gets worse.. Patients in Arm 2 will receive the standard of care platinum doublet (platinum plus etoposide) chemotherapy for up to 4 cycles. . Patients in arm 2 whose cancer gets worse (as determined by imaging scans), may "cross-over" to the Platinum Stacking Phase of Arm 1 (see study schema below).
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
18 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03699956
Sponsor's protocol ID
RRx001-33
Acronym
REPLATINUM
Status last verified
Mar 2024
First submitted
4 Oct 2018
Last updated
26 Mar 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Jayabalan N, Oronsky B, Cabrales P, Reid T, Caroen S, Johnson AM, Birch NA, O'Sullivan JD, Gordon R. A Review of RRx-001: A Late-Stage Multi-Indication Inhibitor of NLRP3 Activation and Chronic Inflammation. Drugs. 2023 Apr;83(5):389-402. doi: 10.1007/s40265-023-01838-z. Epub 2023 Mar 15.

    PubMed 36920652
  • Oronsky B, Reid TR, Larson C, Caroen S, Quinn M, Burbano E, Varner G, Thilagar B, Brown B, Coyle A, Ferry L, Abrouk N, Oronsky A, Scribner CL, Carter CA. REPLATINUM Phase III randomized study: RRx-001 + platinum doublet versus platinum doublet in third-line small cell lung cancer. Future Oncol. 2019 Oct;15(30):3427-3433. doi: 10.2217/fon-2019-0317. Epub 2019 Sep 11.

    PubMed 31509028

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing RRx-001 + eLOOP Device and Cisplatin/carboplatin plus etoposide in people with Carcinoma, Small Cell Lung, run by EpicentRx, Inc. at 18 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 8 inclusion and 8 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Mar 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 18 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 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 was stopped early (reason given: RRx-001 will be studied under a new global, phase 3 clinical trial). Results are not available in the source record.

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?

Progression Free Survival (time frame: Estimated up to 12 Months). 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 NCT03699956, 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 26 Mar 2024.

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