A Multicenter, Open Label, Single Arm, Phase II Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Sorafenib (Nexavar) in Combination With Gemcitabine in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 45
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- To evaluate the efficacy (progression free survival (PFS)) of sorafenib in patients with advanced/unresectable HCC.
研究概览
简要总结
This study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Sorafenib in combination with Gemcitabine in patients with advanced/unresectable HCC.
详细描述
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), also known as primary liver cancer, is the fifth most common cancer in the world. It is responsible for about 90 percent of the primary malignant liver tumors observed in adult and disproportionately affects men, with about three times as many men developing the disease as women.
Common symptoms in patients affected with HCC include abdominal pain, weight loss, weakness, fullness and anorexia, abdominal swelling, jaundice and vomiting.
Multiple clinical staging systems for hepatic tumors have been used such as the American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM system (stage 0, A, B, C, D) etc. However, the staging systems are still evolving with all attempts to improve the classification and prognosis prediction of HCC, and there is no agreement on the best staging that can be recommended world-wide.
For advanced HCC, sorafenib is likely to become the new standard of care. Combinational therapies with sorafenib have the potential to further improved therapeutic options for patients suffering from advanced HCC. Gemcitabine is a classical chemotherapeutic substance that has modest anti-cancer activity in HCC. However, its anti-cancer activity seems to be improved when combined with other anti-cancer drugs including drugs interfering with the VEGF pathway. Both substances, sorafenib and gemcitabine, have a favorable safety profile with a minimal overlap of side effects. Further the mode of actions of sorafenib and gemcitabine are likely to result in synergistic anti-tumor effects.
An open label, single arm, multicenter phase II study designed to determine progression free survival of patients with advanced stage HCC treated with sorafenib in combination with gemcitabine. Patients will receive up to 6 cycles of gemcitabine(IV 1000 mg/m2 on day 1, 8, 15 of a 28-day cycle) in combination with sorafenib (400 mg po bid daily) followed by sorafenib (400 mg po bid daily) maintenance until disease progression.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •patient at least 18 years of age with written informed consent prior to enrollment into the study.
- •histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced unresectable and/or metastasis) HCC
- •Child-Pugh class A or B
- •Have measurable disease according to RECIST criteria
- •life expectancy of at least 12 weeks, ECOG 0-2
- •Have adequate bone marrow reserve and liver and renal function at screening
- •Practice adequate contraception during study participation
排除标准
- •Exclude medical conditions including history of cardiac disease, HIV infection,active infection,brain metastastasis or intracranial metastasis,seizure disorder requiring medication, history of organ allograft,evidence of or history of bleeding diathesis,previous or concurrent cancer with distinct in primary site or histology (with exception of cervical carcinoma in situ and treated basal cell carcinoma
- •Excluded therapies and medications, previous and concomitant : prior systemic anticancer chemotherapy or immunotherapy or targeted therapy,hormonal therapy within 2 weeks,local treatment modality within 4 weeks,radiotherapy within 3 weeks,major surgery and unhealed wound within 4 weeks,autologous bone marrow transplant or stem cell rescue within 4 months
- •other condition that may interfere with the patient's participation in the study or evaluation of the results
研究组 & 干预措施
1
Sorafenib
干预措施: Sorafenib and Gemcitabine (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
To evaluate the efficacy (progression free survival (PFS)) of sorafenib in patients with advanced/unresectable HCC.
时间窗: 2.5 years
次要结局
- To evaluate overall, survival, overall response rate (RECIST), time to progression (TTP), disease control rate (DCR) and side-effect profile of sorafenib in combination with gemcitabine in patients suffering from HCC.(2.5 years)