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Zoptarelin Doxorubicin (AEZS 108) as Second Line Therapy for Endometrial Cancer

Phase 3
Completed
Conditions
Endometrial Cancer
Interventions
Drug: AEZS-108 / zoptarelin doxorubicin
Drug: doxorubicin
Registration Number
NCT01767155
Lead Sponsor
AEterna Zentaris
Brief Summary

Open-label, randomized, active-controlled, two-arm Phase III study to compare the efficacy and safety of AEZS-108 and doxorubicin.

Detailed Description

The study will include about 500 patients with endometrial cancer resistant to platinum/taxane-based chemotherapy.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
511
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Women ≥ 18 years of age
  2. Histologically confirmed endometrial cancer
  3. Advanced (FIGO stage III or IV), recurrent or metastatic disease.
  4. Measurable or non-measurable disease that has progressed since last treatment.
    1. Patients with advanced, recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer who have received one chemotherapeutic regimen with platinum and taxane (either as adjuvant or as first line treatment) and who have progressed.
  5. Availability of fresh or archival FFPE (formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded) tumor specimens for analysis of LHRH (luteinizing hormone releasing hormone) receptor expression.
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Exclusion Criteria
  1. ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) performance status > 2.
  2. Inadequate hematologic, hepatic or renal function
  3. Red blood cell transfusion within 2 weeks prior to anticipated start of study treatment.
  4. History of myocardial infarction, acute inflammatory heart disease, unstable angina, or uncontrolled arrhythmia within the past 6 months.
  5. Impaired cardiac function defined as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 50 % (or below the study site's lower limit of normal) as measured by MUGA (multigated radionuclide angiography) or ECHO (echocardiography).
  6. Concomitant use of prohibited therapy (specified in protocol)
  7. Chemo-, immune-, or hormone-therapy within 5 elimination half life times or 4 weeks prior to randomization, whichever is the shorter. Radiotherapy (including pre- or post-operative brachytherapy) within 4 weeks prior to randomization.
  8. Previous anthracycline-based chemotherapy (daunorubicin, doxorubicin, epirubicin, idarubicin, mitoxantrone and valrubicin), in any formulation.
  9. Anticipated ongoing concomitant anticancer therapy during the study.
  10. History of serious co-morbidity or uncontrolled illness that would preclude study therapy, such as active tuberculosis or any other active infection.
  11. Brain metastasis, leptomeningeal disease.
  12. Pregnant or lactating female or female of child-bearing potential not employing adequate contraception.
  13. Subjects with known hypersensitivity to peptide drugs, including LHRH agonists.
  14. Receipt of 2 or more prior cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens for advanced, recurrent, or metastatic endometrial cancer.
  15. Prior treatment with AEZS-108.
  16. Use of LHRH agonist or antagonist treatment within 6 months prior to randomization.
  17. Malignancy within last 5 years except non-melanoma skin cancer.
  18. Any concomitant disease or condition which would interfere with the subjects' proper completion of the protocol assignment.
  19. Concomitant or recent treatment with other investigational drug (within 4 weeks or 5 elimination half life times prior to anticipated start of study treatment).
  20. Lack of ability or willingness to give informed consent.
  21. Anticipated non-availability for study visits/procedures.
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
AEZS-108 / zoptarelin doxorubicinAEZS-108 / zoptarelin doxorubicin267 mg/m\^2 by 2-hour intravenous infusion, on Day 1 of 21-day (3-week) cycles up to 9 cycles
doxorubicin/ standard chemotherapydoxorubicin60 mg/m\^2 by intravenous bolus injection or 1-hour intravenous infusion, on Day 1 of 21-day (3-week) cycles
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Compare the Overall Survival (OS) of Patients Treated With AEZS-108 to the OS of Patients Treated With Doxorubicin.From randomization to death from any cause. During ongoing treatment: response evaluation every 3 cycles. For patients gone of treatment: re-assessment every 12 weeks.

Overall survival was defined as the elapsed time from randomization to death from any cause. For surviving patients, follow-up was to be censored at the date of last contact.

The final analysis, which was event-based, was conducted after approximately 384 randomized patients had died.

A log-rank test with an overall two sided Type I Error rate of 0.05 after taking the interim analyses into account was used to compare OS between the two treatment arms via a SAS (Statistical Analysis System) LIFETEST procedure. Kaplan Meier estimates were used to calculate median OS and the 95% confidence interval (CI) of the median OS. The proportion of patients alive at 6 and 12 months (from randomization date) and the 95% CIs for these estimated proportions were calculated.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Compare Efficacy Based on Objective Response Rate (ORR).3 years

The ORR was defined as the sum of the Complete Response (CR) and Partial Response (PR).

CR: Disappearance of all target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) was to have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm.

PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum diameters.

All responses were confirmed at least 4 weeks after the initial response was observed. Tumor assessments occurred every 3 cycles (± 7 days) during ongoing treatment then every 3 months (± 7 days) thereafter while the patient was on study. The last assessment occurred either when progression was confirmed or when approximately 384 randomized patients had died.

Compare Efficacy Based on Progression-free Survival (PFS).During ongoing treatment: response evaluation every 3 cycles. For patients gone of treatment: re-assessment every 12 weeks.

Progression-free survival (PFS): days between randomization and the date of documented progression or death for any cause that occurred up to the end of the study. For patients whose progression status could not be determined, their PFS data was censored for the last adequate progression assessment date that the patient was confirmed to have no progression.

Response and progression were to be evaluated using the international criteria proposed by the revised Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) guideline (version 1.1). Changes in the largest diameter (uni-dimensional measurement) of the tumor lesions and the shortest diameter in the case of malignant lymph nodes were to be used.

During ongoing treatment, patients were to be re-evaluated for response every 3 cycles (i.e. every 9 weeks).

A subsequent scan was obtained no earlier than 4 weeks following the initial documentation of an objective status of either complete response (CR) or partial response (PR).

Compare Efficacy Based on Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR).3 years

Clinical benefit was defined as having stable disease (SD) or better lasting for at least 9 weeks. The CBR was analyzed using the same methods for the ORR analyses. The analysis of CBR (CR+PR+SD) was performed in the ITT (intention-to-treat) population.

CR: Disappearance of all target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) was to have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm.

PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum diameters.

All responses were confirmed at least 4 weeks after the initial response was observed. Tumor assessments occurred every 3 cycles (± 7 days) during ongoing treatment then every 3 months (± 7 days) thereafter while the patient was on study. The last assessment occurred either when progression was confirmed or when approximately 384 randomized patients had died.

Trial Locations

Locations (123)

Hopital Notre Dame - CHUM

🇨🇦

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

McGill University

🇨🇦

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Cross Cancer Institute

🇨🇦

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Royal Victoria Hospital

🇨🇦

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kuopio University Hospital

🇫🇮

Kuopio, Finland

Centrum Terapii Współczesnej ul.

🇵🇱

Łódź, Poland

Spitalul Clinic Judetean Mures

🇷🇴

Targu Mures, Mures County, Romania

GAUZ "Republican Clinical Oncology Center"

🇷🇺

Kazan, Republic Of Tatarstan, Russian Federation

Oncology Institute "Prof. Dr. I. Chiricuta"

🇷🇴

Cluj Npaoca, Romania

FGBU "NIIO n.a. N.N. Petrov"

🇷🇺

Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation

Budget Institution of Health / Leningrad Regional Oncological Dispensary

🇷🇺

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Saint-Petersburg State Budgetary Institution Healthcare "City Clinical Oncology Center"

🇷🇺

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

FGBU "RONC n.a. N.N. Blokhin"

🇷🇺

Moscow, Russian Federation

Republican Clinical Oncology Dispensary

🇷🇺

Ufa, Russian Federation

Nizhny Novgorod Regional Oncology Dispensary

🇷🇺

Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation

Pyatigorsk Regional Oncology Dispensary

🇷🇺

Pyatigorsk, Russian Federation

Volgograd Regional Oncology Dispensary #3

🇷🇺

Volzhskiy, Russian Federation

Zina Memorial Cancer Hospital (LISSOD)

🇺🇦

Plyuty, Kiev Region, Ukraine

CCMP I Donetsk Regional Anticancer Center

🇺🇦

Donetsk, Ukraine

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

🇬🇧

Bebington, Wirral, United Kingdom

Kiev City Clinical Oncology Center

🇺🇦

Kiev, Ukraine

Vinnitsa Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary

🇺🇦

Vinnitsa, Ukraine

Northwestern University

🇺🇸

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Hope Women's Cancer Centers / Mission Hospital, Inc.

🇺🇸

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

🇺🇸

Dallas, Texas, United States

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

🇺🇸

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Levine Cancer Institute

🇺🇸

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

University of Virginia

🇺🇸

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

UZ Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg

🇧🇪

Leuven, Belgium

Hospital Centre Liege University_CHU Sart Tilman

🇧🇪

Liege, Belgium

Fakultní nemocnice Olomouc

🇨🇿

Olomouc, Czechia

Turku University Central Hospital

🇫🇮

Turku, Finland

Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Gynäkologie Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

🇩🇪

Halle, Germany

Hadassah Hospital

🇮🇱

Jerusalem, Israel

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

🇮🇱

Tel Aviv, Israel

Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center

🇮🇱

Petah-Tikva, Israel

Bialostockie Centrum Onkologii

🇵🇱

Bialystok, Poland

The Norwegian Radium Hospital

🇳🇴

Oslo, Norway

Haukeland University Hospital

🇳🇴

Bergen, Norway

NZOZ Magodent, Szpital Onkologiczny

🇵🇱

Warszawa, Poland

I Klinika Ginekologii Onkologicznej i Ginekologii

🇵🇱

Lublin, Poland

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia

🇪🇸

Valencia, Spain

Municipal institution "Dnipropetrovsk City Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital No. 4"

🇺🇦

Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Public health enterprise "Kharkov regional Clinical Oncological Center"

🇺🇦

Kharkov, Ukraine

The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

🇬🇧

Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

St James's University Hospital

🇬🇧

Leeds, United Kingdom

Imperial college Healthcare NHS Trust

🇬🇧

London, United Kingdom

Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust

🇬🇧

Nottingham, United Kingdom

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

🇺🇸

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Peggy and Charles Oklahoma Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari

🇮🇹

Bari, Italy

Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS

🇮🇹

Napoli, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord

🇮🇹

Pesaro, Italy

USC Norris Hospital and LAC+USC Medical Center

🇺🇸

Los Angeles, California, United States

Women's Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Covington, Louisiana, United States

The Hospital of Central Connecticut

🇺🇸

New Britain, Connecticut, United States

University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Hartford Hospital

🇺🇸

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Mogilev Regional Clinical Oncologic Dispensary

🇧🇾

Mogilev, Belarus

Mater Private Hospital

🇮🇪

Dublin, Ireland

Academic Medical Center

🇳🇱

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Herlev Hospital

🇩🇰

Herlev, Denmark

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

🇺🇸

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe der Universität Regensburg am Caritas-Krankenhaus St. Josef

🇩🇪

Regensburg, Germany

Northside Hospital

🇺🇸

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Washington University School of Medecine

🇺🇸

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Roger Maris Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Alexandrov National Cancer centre of Belarus

🇧🇾

Minsk, Belarus

CHWAPI

🇧🇪

Tournai, Belgium

Clinical Center Banja Luka, Oncology Clinic

🇧🇦

Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hotel Dieu de Quebec- CHUQ

🇨🇦

Quebec, Canada

Copenhagen University Hospital "Rigshospitalet"

🇩🇰

Copenhagen, Denmark

Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst

🇩🇪

Frankfurt, Germany

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Abteilung für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe

🇩🇪

Göttingen, Germany

Institut Jules Bordet

🇧🇪

Brussels, Belgium

University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Oncology clinic

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Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo

🇧🇦

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Henrico Doctor's Hospital

🇺🇸

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Sanford Research/USD

🇺🇸

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Vitebsk Regional Clinical Oncologic Dispensary

🇧🇾

Vitebsk, Belarus

Inova Fairfax Hospitals

🇺🇸

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Minsk City Clinical Oncologic Dispensary

🇧🇾

Minsk, Belarus

Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment in Obstetrics and Gynecology

🇧🇬

Pleven, Bulgaria

Princess Margaret Cancer Center

🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Masarykův onkologický ústav

🇨🇿

Brno, Czechia

Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice v Praze

🇨🇿

Praha, Czechia

Tampere University Hospital

🇫🇮

Tampere, Finland

St James's Hospital

🇮🇪

Dublin, Ireland

Barzilai Medical Center

🇮🇱

Ashkelon, Israel

Helse Stavanger HF, Stavanger Universitetssjukhus

🇳🇴

Stavanger, Norway

Universitätsklinikum Köln

🇩🇪

Köln, Germany

University Clinic Münster

🇩🇪

Münster, Germany

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

🇮🇪

Dublin, Ireland

University Hospital Galway

🇮🇪

Galway, Ireland

Waterford Regional Hospital

🇮🇪

Waterford, Ireland

Rambam Health Care Campus

🇮🇱

Haifa, Israel

Chaim Sheba Medical Center

🇮🇱

Tel Hashomer, Israel

Spitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgenta "Sf. Ioan cel Nou"

🇷🇴

Suceava, Romania

Oncomed

🇷🇴

Timisoara, Romania

Istituto Oncologico Veneto, IRCCS

🇮🇹

Padova, Italy

Policlinico A. Gemelli

🇮🇹

Rome, Italy

Ramon Y Cajal Hospital

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Oncology Institute Kaplan

🇮🇱

Rehovot, Israel

Maastricht University Medical Center (UMC)

🇳🇱

Maastricht, Netherlands

Wojewodzki Szpital Specjalistyczny

🇵🇱

Olsztyn, Poland

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena

🇮🇹

Modena, Italy

Hospital Vall d´Hebron

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Clínico San Carlos

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Centru de Oncologie Sf. Nectarie

🇷🇴

Craiova, Romania

Oncolab

🇷🇴

Craiova, Dolj County, Romania

MD Anderson cáncer center

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

Zakarpatskyi Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary

🇺🇦

Uzhgorod, Ukraine

University of California, Irvine - Medical Center

🇺🇸

Orange, California, United States

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

🇺🇸

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

University of Colorado

🇺🇸

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Moffitt Cancer Center

🇺🇸

Tampa, Florida, United States

Hollings Cancer Center, MUSC

🇺🇸

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.

🇺🇸

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

🇬🇧

Coventry, United Kingdom

Medizinische Universität Innsbruck

🇦🇹

Innsbruck, Austria

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