Safety and Efficacy Study to Treat Recurrent Grade 4 Malignant Brain Tumors
Phase 2
Completed
- Conditions
- Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme
- Interventions
- Drug: TP-38Drug: TP38
- Registration Number
- NCT00071539
- Lead Sponsor
- Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc.
- Brief Summary
Immunotoxins can locate tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells. Immunotoxin therapy may be effective in treating malignant glioma.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 56
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
Patients fulfilling any of the following criteria should not be enrolled in the study:
- Previous myelosuppressive chemotherapy within the past 4 weeks of the start of the infusion. Patients who have received more than two chemotherapy regimens (single therapy or combination therapy) are ineligible.
- Any form of brain radiation within 10 weeks of the start of the infusion.
- Previous gamma knife radiosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and/or internal radiotherapy, unless the recurrence/progression is histologically confirmed (fine-needle biopsy).
- Prior intracavitary biologic response modifiers or monoclonal antibodies.
- Uncontrolled seizures.
- Bilateral or multifocal tumors.
- Evidence of cerebral uncal herniation.
- Midline brain shift on MRI scan of > 0.5 cm prior to resection; patients with subfalcine herniation may be enrolled.
- Tumors involving the brainstem or cerebellum.
- Diffuse subependymal or CSF disease.
- Women who are pregnant or breast feeding. All women of child-bearing potential should be excluded unless they have a negative pregnancy test and are using adequate contraceptive measures or are surgically sterile. Post-menopausal women must be amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing.
- Fertile males not practicing adequate contraception and whose female partners are not using adequate contraceptive protection.
- Prior or concurrent investigational treatment within 30 days of study entry.
- Active infection requiring treatment or having an unexplained febrile illness.
- Systemic diseases or other conditions which may be associated with unacceptable anesthetic/operative risk and/or which would not allow safe completion of this study protocol.
- Prior or concurrent malignancy (curatively treated carcinoma-in-situ or basal cell carcinoma or patients who have been disease free for at least 5 years are eligible).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description TP38 50 ng/mL TP-38 - TP38 100 ng/mL TP38 -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Survival 28 weeks % patients alive
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time to progression (TTP) 28 weeks An independent review committee will review MRI scans and will be blinded to the dose each patient received.