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Ropeginterferon Alfa-2b (P1101) vs. Anagrelide in Essential Thrombocythemia Patients With Hydroxyurea Resistance or Intolerance

Phase 3
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Essential Thrombocythemia
Interventions
Biological: Ropeginterferon alfa-2b
Registration Number
NCT04285086
Lead Sponsor
PharmaEssentia
Brief Summary

This is a Phase 3 open-label, multicenter, randomized, active-controlled study designed to compare the efficacy and safety and tolerability of P1101 compared with ANA after 12 months of treatment as second-line therapy for subjects with ET who have had a suboptimal or failed response to HU.

Detailed Description

PharmaEssentia Corporation is developing a pegylated (PEG) IFN-α product, P1101, for the treatment of ET.

Available clinical data and experience with P1101 in PV shows that the compound, with proper dose modifications, is effective in controlling disease in a significant proportion of subjects with ET. Further, its increased serum half-life presents distinct advantages for ET treatment over that of standard IFN-α and other available PEG IFN-α therapy. This pivotal Phase 3 study will establish the efficacy and safety of P1101 in ET subjects.

In core study phase, the enrolled subjects will be randomized into two arms, the test arm is P1101, the control arm is ANA. The overall duration for each eligible patient is 14 months, including screening (1 month), treatment (12 months) and follow-up (1 month) period. Efficacy evaluations, safety assessments, and PK and immunogenicity evaluations of P1101 will be performed.

Evaluation of efficacy will include clinical laboratory assessments, allelic burden measurements of CALR, JAK-2, and MPL, spleen size measurements, bone marrow sampling, EQ-5D-3L, and MPN-SAF TSS completion.

Evaluation of safety will include assessing vital signs, clinical safety laboratory tests, physical examinations, ECG evaluation, heart ECHO, lung X-ray, ECOG performance status, ocular examination, and AEs.

Subjects who completed the end of treatment (EoT) and safety follow-up (EoS) visits of the SURPASS ET study and may benefit from P1101 therapy have the opportunity to receive P1101 treatment.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
174
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Male or female subjects ≥18 years old

  2. Subjects diagnosed with high-risk ET (either older than 60 years and JAK2V617-positive at screening, or having disease-related thrombosis or hemorrhage in the past), diagnosed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2016 criteria

  3. Subjects have received prior HU for ET, while the washout between the last dose of HU and randomization should not be shorter than 7 days

  4. Interferon treatment-naïve, or anti-P1101 binding antibody negative at screening and the washout between last dose of interferon and randomization should not be shorter than 14 days.

  5. Documented resistance/intolerance to prior HU for ET, referencing modified ELN criteria (Barosi, et al, 2007), whereby at least one of the following criteria is met:

    Platelet count >600 x 10^9/L at ≥2 g/day (or ≥2.5 g/day if subject body weight >80 kg) or maximally tolerated dose if <2 g/day after at least 3 months of HU, or Platelet count >400 x 10^9/L and WBC count <2.5 x 10^9/L at any dose and any duration of HU, or Platelet count >400 x 10^9/L and hemoglobin (HGB) <10 g/dL at any dose and any duration of HU, or Presence of HU-related toxicities at any dose and any duration of therapy (e.g., leg ulcers, mucocutaneous manifestations, pneumonitis, or HU-related fever), or Platelet count >450 x 10^9/L at any dose and any duration of HU. The actual dose and duration of HU must be recorded on the eCRF. Moreover, if patient received one dose of HU, the reason why subject was judged to be HU resistance/intolerance must be recorded on the eCRF.

  6. Platelets >450 x 10^9/L at screening

  7. WBC >10 x 10^9/L at screening

  8. HGB ≥11 g/dL at screening for males and 10 g/dL at screening for females

  9. Neutrophil count ≥1.0 x 10^9/L at screening

  10. Adequate hepatic function defined as bilirubin ≤1.5 x upper limit normal (ULN), prothrombin time (PT) (international normalized ratio, INR) ≤1.5 x ULN, albumin >3.5 g/dL, alanine aminotransferase ≤2.0 x ULN, aspartate aminotransferase ≤2.0 x ULN at screening

  11. Creatinine clearance ≥40 mL/min (by Cockcroft-Gault equation)

  12. Males and females of childbearing potential, as well as all women <2 years after the onset of menopause, must agree to use an acceptable form of birth control until 28 days following the last dose of the study drug, and females must agree to not breastfeed during the study

  13. Written informed consent obtained from the subject and ability for the subject to comply with the requirements of the study

Exclusion Criteria
  1. Any subject requiring a legally authorized representative

  2. Any contraindications or hypersensitivity to IFN-α or ANA and their excipients

  3. Known risk factors for QT-prolongation (e.g., congenital long QT, known history of acquired QT-prolongations). Medications that can prolong QTc and induce hypokalemia will not be allowed in the study.

  4. Co-morbidity with severe or serious condition that, in the Investigator's opinion, would jeopardize the safety of the subject or their compliance with the protocol, including significant cardiac disease (including New York Heart Association Class III-IV congestive heart failure and clinically significant arrhythmias) and pulmonary hypertension

  5. History of major organ transplantation

  6. Pregnant or lactating females

  7. Subjects with any other significant medical conditions that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would compromise the results of the study or may impair compliance with the requirements of the protocol, including but not limited to:

    1. Documented autoimmune disease at screening or in the history (e.g., thyroid dysfunction, hepatitis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, scleroderma, psoriasis, or any arthritis of autoimmune origin)
    2. Clinically relevant pulmonary infiltrates, pneumonia, and pneumonitis at screening that, in the Investigator's opinion, would jeopardize the safety of the subject or their compliance with the protocol
    3. Infections with systemic manifestations (e.g., bacterial, fungal, or human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], except hepatitis B [HBV] and/or hepatitis C [HCV], at screening)
    4. Evidence of severe retinopathy (e.g., cytomegalovirus retinitis, macular degeneration) or clinically relevant ophthalmological disorder (due to diabetes mellitus or hypertension)
    5. History or presence of clinically relevant depression
    6. Previous suicide attempts or at any risk of suicide at screening, in the judgement of the Investigator
    7. History or presence of clinically significant neurologic diseases
    8. History of any malignancy within 5 years (except Stage 0 chronic lymphocytic leukemia, basal cell, squamous cell, and superficial melanoma)
    9. History of alcohol or drug abuse within the last year
    10. History or evidence of any other MPN
    11. History of splenectomy
  8. Use of any investigational drug <4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug or not recovered from effects of prior administration of any investigational agent

  9. Subjects with documented ANA resistance or intolerance (see Appendix 8 for definition).

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Ropeginterferon alfa-2b (P1101)Ropeginterferon alfa-2bPre-filled Syringe, Q2W, SC injection
AnagrelideAnagrelideCapsules, Daily, p.o.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Peripheral blood count remissionmonth 9 and month 12

platelets ≤400 x 10\^9/L AND white blood cells (WBC) \<9.5 x 10\^9/L

Large symptoms improvement or maintain non-progressionmonth 9 and month 12

based on the Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Symptom Assessment Form Total Symptom Score (MPN-SAF TSS)

Improvement or non-progression in disease-related signsmonth 9 and month 12

splenomegaly

Absence of hemorrhagic or thrombotic eventsmonth 9 and month 12

absence of hemorrhagic or thrombotic events

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (65)

University of Yamanashi Hospital

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Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan

Ehime University Hospital

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Toon, Ehime, Japan

Mie University Hospital

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Tsu, Mie, Japan

Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital

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Izunokuni, Shizuoka, Japan

Juntendo University Hospital

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Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Chi-Mei Hospital - Liouying Branch

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Tainan City, Taiwan

NTT Medical Center Tokyo

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Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

China Medical University Hospital

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Taichung City, Taiwan

Chi Mei Medical Center

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Tainan City, Taiwan

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

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New Taipei City, Taiwan

Tainan Municipal An-Nan Hospital

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Tainan City, Taiwan

MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Houston, Texas, United States

St. Paul's Hospital

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

SoonChunHyang University Seoul Hospital

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Mackay Memorial Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

National University Hospital

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Singapore, Singapore

Washington University School of Medicine - Division of Oncology

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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

University of Utah

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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Princess Margaret Hospital

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jewish General Hospital

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Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Peking University People's Hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

The First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University

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Chongqing, Chongqing, China

Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technolog

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Wuhan, Hubei, China

NanFang Hospital of Southern Medical University

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Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

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Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

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Wuhan, Hubei, China

Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University

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Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Qilu Hospital of Shandong University

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Jinan, Shandong, China

West China Hospital, Sichuan University

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Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University school of Medicine

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Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital

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Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University

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Tianjin, Tianjin, China

The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University

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Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

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Tianjin, Tianjin, China

Queen Mary Hospital

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Kitasato University Hospital

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Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

University of Miyazaki Hospital

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Miyazaki City, Miyazaki, Japan

Osaka University Hospital

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Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kansai Medical University Hospital

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Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Kindai University Hospital

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Osakasayama, Osaka, Japan

Daegu Catholic University Hospital

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Daegu, Korea, Republic of

Nippon Medical School Hospital

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Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Seoul National University Hospital

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Tokyo Medical University Hospital

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Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Samsung Medical Center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Korea University Guro Hospital

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Chia-Yi Christian Hospital

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Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Taiwan

Singapore General Hospital

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Singapore, Singapore

Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

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Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Taiwan

Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

E-Da Cancer Hospital

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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital

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Hualien City, Taiwan

E-Da Hospital

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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

National Cheng Kung University Hospital

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Tainan City, Taiwan

National Taiwan University Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Tri-Service General Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei Veterans General Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital

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Taipei City, Taiwan

Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

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Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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