A Phase II Pilot Study of Metformin Therapy in Patients With Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Untreated CLL Patients With Genomic Deletion 11q
概览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 干预措施
- Metformin
- 疾病 / 适应症
- Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- 发起方
- University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
- 入组人数
- 37
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Time to treatment failure
- 状态
- 已完成
- 最后更新
- 7个月前
概览
简要总结
Metformin is an antidiabetic drug which is an inexpensive and generally well tolerated medication. More recently metformin has been shown to act against carcinomas by two mechanisms: 1) an indirect, insulin-dependent mechanism which sensitizes tissues to insulin, inhibits hepatic gluconeogenesis, and stimulates uptake of glucose in muscle, thereby reducing fasting blood glucose and circulating levels of insulin, lowering the pro survival activity of the insulin/INSR axis, and 2) a direct, insulin-independent mechanism which activates the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway and leads to inhibition of the mTOR pathway. Given the investigators preliminary published data on insulin and mTOR inhibition[1] metformin is an attractive candidate for a pilot clinical trial in CLL patients.
研究者
入排标准
入选标准
- •Patients should have a confirmed diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia defined as all of the following:
- •ALC \> 5000
- •Positive for either CD19 or CD 20 together with CD23 and CD
- •Less than 55% atypical cells
- •Patients who relapse after receiving a one or more courses of fludarabine, bendamustine, cytoxan, rituxan, chlorambucil, or campath based therapy.
- •Patients should have findings of relapse by one or both of the following:
- •ALC \> 5000 on 2 consecutive occasions and increasing
- •Any increase in lymphadenopathy over best response that has persisted for more than 3 months
- •Patient with confirmed del11q mutation may be included if untreated.
- •Age \> or equal to 18 years old and \< 80 years of age during the course of therapy
排除标准
- •Patients with active CLL disease requiring urgent chemotherapy
- •Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
- •Patients less than 30 days from last treatment for CLL.
- •History of allergic reactions attributed to metformin or other biguanides.
- •Known diabetes (type 1 or 2), fasting glucose \> or equal to 7.0 mmol/L (126 mg/dL), or HgbA1C \> 6.5
- •Currently taking metformin, sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones or insulin for any reason
- •Current or planned pregnancy or lactation in women of child bearing age (confirmed by negative pregnancy test prior to start of therapy).
- •Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection and sepsis, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- •Conditions which would increase risk of lactic acidosis including:
- •Known alcoholism or ingestion of more than 3 alcoholic beverages per day
研究组 & 干预措施
Metformin (Glucophage)
The starting dose of metformin will be 500 mg po daily for one week. The dose can be escalated to 500 mg twice a day after one week, and further escalated to the final dose of 1000 mg twice a day in week 3 if the medication is tolerated without adverse side effects (refer to holding parameters described in section 9.3.3). All doses should be administered with food to decrease gastrointestinal upset.
干预措施: Metformin
结局指标
主要结局
Time to treatment failure
时间窗: Until the patient meets failure criteria and stops Metformin; up to 6 months after start of metformin therapy and yearly thereafter.
While patients are on metformin therapy, time to treatment failure will be defined as one or all of the following criteria: 1. ALC \> 5000 on 3 occasions after start of metformin treatment and increasing by 25% or more on each occasion, which will be measured every 3 months. 2. An increase of Rai Stage (0-3) by one stage. 3. An increase in any lymph node by \>50% as assessed by either physical exam (all patients) or CT scanning (only if ordered as part of routine clinical management). 4. Worsening cytopenias (Hemoglobin \<11 g/dl) associated with a bone marrow biopsy result indicating advanced stage CLL (packed CLL marrow).
次要结局
- Time to first therapy (TTFT) in previously untreated 11q CLL subsets only.(from time of diagnosis to time of first treatment with anti-neoplastic chemotherapy.)
- Change in size of clinically appreciated lymphadenopathy in cm and splenomegaly while on metformin therapy(Baseline up to 3 months after completing metformin therapy)
- Changes in the rate of increase of absolute lymphocyte count while on metformin therapy(Until the patient meets failure criteria and stops Metformin)
- Change in number of clinically appreciated lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly while on metformin therapy(Baseline up to 3 months after completing metformin therapy)