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Apixaban to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism in Ambulatory Lung Cancer Patients Undergoing Systemic Anticancer Treatment

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Thromboprophylaxis
Interventions
Other: Placebo
Registration Number
NCT07160686
Lead Sponsor
University of Birmingham
Brief Summary

The aim of this trial is to find out if a tablet called apixaban can reduce blood clots in people with lung cancer having chemotherapy or similar treatments. Apixaban is a type of oral anticoagulant ("blood thinner") that makes the blood less sticky to prevent blood clots forming.

The trial is trying to find out if apixaban it can reduce blood clots in people with lung cancer.

Participants will receive the following treatment:

• Apixaban or placebo, 2.5mg taken by mouth twice a day for 6 months. This treatment will be taken in addition to any treatment that they are receiving to treat their lung cancer.

Participants will need to:

* Sign a consent form to enter the trial.

* Take the trial treatment as directed by the research team

* Complete a participant diary to record when they took the trial treatment

* Complete the Quality of Life and Health resource use questionnaires.

* Female participants of childbearing potential must use adequate contraception during the trial and for at least 2 days after trial treatment has finished.

Detailed Description

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common in lung cancer and results in worse quality of life, increased healthcare costs, increased morbidity, and mortality. VTE is also increased in lung cancer patients undergoing systemic anticancer therapy (SACT). VTE can be reduced using anticoagulation as thromboprophylaxis, but this is not the current standard of care for outpatients having SACT. The subcutaneous anticoagulant low molecular weight heparin can reduce VTE in lung cancer but can be inconvenient to take. Apixaban is a type of direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) taken in tablet form and not requiring regular blood monitoring, which have a good safety profile and are licensed for other medical conditions. Whilst anticoagulants have been used for thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer, the role of DOACs in ambulatory lung cancer patients is unanswered by the existing literature.

THROMBO-STOP is a multicentre, double blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, two arm, phase 3 randomised clinical trial testing the efficacy of Apixaban to reduce VTE in ambulatory lung cancer patients undergoing SACT. There will be a process evaluation, acceptability study and economic evaluation. For this superiority trial, 1456 patients (728 per group) are required to have a 90% power of detecting, as significant with an alpha of 0.05 (two-sided), a decrease in the rate of VTE from 8.6% in the control group (placebo) to 4% in the intervention group (apixaban), assuming a 20% drop-out rate. The planned recruitment of 1456 patients would involve 34 sites.

THROMBO-STOP patients will be recruited over a 36-month period which includes a 12-month internal pilot among a projected 40% of sites.

Data from these elements inform our stop/go criteria. The pilot aims to i) assess recruitment rate and exclusions ii) to assess VTE event rate iii) to assess progression criteria.

The overall study time will be 60 months accounting for trial set up and analysis.

Participants will be recruited to the trial from NHS UK sites.

Randomisation will be via a secure online system (staffed telephone back-up during office hours) based at CRCTU, allocating participants in a 1:1 ratio to either apixaban 2.5mg BD or placebo. A minimisation algorithm will be used within the system to ensure balance in the intervention allocations over the following variables: age (\<70 or ≥70 ), sex (male or female) and cancer stage (III or IV). To avoid the possibility of the intervention allocation becoming predictable, a random element will be included in the algorithm.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1456
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ApixabanApixabanapixaban 2.5 mg twice a day for 6 months
PlaceboPlaceboapixaban matched placebo twice a day for 6 months
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
18.3.1.1 Objectively confirmed VTE6 months

Difference between a composite of objectively confirmed VTE and VTE-related death in participants with lung cancer, commencing SACT or CRT, when treated with 6 months of apixaban vs. placebo.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Objectively confirmed VTE including all cause death6 months

Composite of:

i. New proximal or distal DVT (symptomatic or incidental) of upper or lower limbs, iliac veins, inferior/superior vena cava or central venous catheter related thrombosis ii. Non-fatal PE (symptomatic or incidental) iii. Death from any cause

Bleeding outcomes6 months

* Major bleeding

* Clinically relevant bleeding:

Defined as the rate of participants experiencing at least one major bleeding and/or a clinically relevant non-major bleeding (CRNMB)

Net clinical benefit6 months

Net clinical benefit (NCB) combines the primary efficacy outcome and major bleeding or clinically relevant bleeding. NCB is defined as: \[the rate of VTE prevented by apixaban\] minus \[the rate of major or clinically relevant bleeding induced by apixaban\].

NCB= (VTE\_control-VTE\_apixaban ) - (Weighting × (Bleed\_apixaban-Bleed\_control )) VTE; the rate of objectively confirmed VTE or VTE related deaths (as defined for our primary outcome) Bleed; the rate of major bleeding or clinically relevant bleeding (as defined above).

A default weighting factor of 1.0 will be used to represent an equal clinical weighting between the prevention of VTE by apixaban and the induction of major bleeding by apixaban, however supplementary analyses may be performed with a different weighting.

Proximal or distal DVT (symptomatic or incidental)6 months

The rate of proximal or distal DVT will be collected and the Odds Ratio of apixaban vs placebo will be reported.

Other rates of thrombosis6 months

The following thrombosis events will be investigated:

* Arterial thromboembolism

* Visceral thromboembolism

Survival outcomes6 months

* VTE-related death

* All cause death

* Vascular death

EQ-5D-5L questionnaire6 months

Questionnaires will be collected and the five subscale scores will be transformed to the summary index value using the value set(s) appropriate for the countries the trial opens in. Index values range from -0.285 and 1.00, with a higher score indicates a better quality of life. Median index values (along with subscale scores) will then be reported for apixaban and placebo groups, along with minimal important differences.

VTE-related death6 months

Time to VTE-related death will be collected and the Hazard Ratio of apixaban vs. placebo will be reported.

Global EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire6 months

Questionnaires will be collected and the mean global health status /QoL scale will be reported. This scale ranges from 0-100 with a higher score indicating a higher quality of life. Median health status/QoL (along with subscale scores) values will then be reported for apixaban and placebo groups, along with minimal important differences.

Time to VTE6 months

VTE events (objectively confirmed VTE or VTE-related deaths) will be presented as a time to event outcome (time to VTE).

Non-fatal PE6 months

The rate of non-fatal PEs will be collected and the Odds Ratio of apixaban vs placebo will be reported.

Lung cancer QLQ-LC29 questionnaire6 months

Questionnaires will be collected and subscales will be calculated and reported. All subscales range from 0-100, with a higher score indicating a higher quality of life. Median values will then be reported for apixaban and placebo groups, along with minimal important differences

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

University of Birmingham
🇬🇧Birmingham, United Kingdom

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