Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

IRINOTECAN HYDROCHLORIDE for Locally advanced rectal cancer | Rectal cancer stage III

Phase II trial of IRINOTECAN HYDROCHLORIDE for Locally advanced rectal cancer | Rectal cancer stage III. open-label, none/not specified-controlled.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Locally advanced rectal cancer | Rectal cancer stage III
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
30-09-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
19-11-2024

Trial design

open-label, none/not specified-controlled Phase II trial across 9 sites in Italy.

Open Label
Yes
Comparator
None/Not specified
Target Sample Size
63

Eligibility

Recruits 63 Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected = true). Written informed consent required from participants; subject information and informed consent form available (document: L1_Main ICF_Redatto) and privacy information (L1_Info Privacy_Redatto). Participants are adults (age 18-70) and consent is provided by the participant..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Pregnant or lactating women. Women of childbearing potential with either a positive or no pregnancy test at baseline. Sexually active males and females (of childbearing potential) unwilling to practice contraception during the study and until 180 days after the last trial treatment
Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected = true). Written informed consent required from participants; subject information and informed consent form available (document: L1_Main ICF_Redatto) and privacy information (L1_Info Privacy_Redatto). Participants are adults (age 18-70) and consent is provided by the participant.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Written informed consent to study procedures and to translational analyses;"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- No history of invasive rectal malignancy, regardless of disease-free interval"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- No other rectal cancers (i.e., sarcoma, lymphoma, carcinoid, squamous cell carcinoma, or cloacogenic carcinoma) or synchronous colon cancer"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- No clear involvement of the pelvic side walls by imaging"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Life expectancy of at least 5 years (excluding diagnosis of cancer)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Hematopoietic function: absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm3; platelet count ≥100,000/mm3; haemoglobin level ≥ 9 g/dL"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Liver function: total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN); alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2 times ULN; AST ≤ 2 times ULN"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Renal function: creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min or serum creatinine 1.5 x UNL; no renal disease that would preclude study treatment or follow-up"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative blood pregnancy test at the screening visit. For this trial, women of childbearing potential are defined as all women after puberty, unless they are postmenopausal for at least 12 months, are surgically sterile, or are sexually inactive. A postmenopausal state is defined as no menses for 12 months without an alternative medical cause. A high follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level in the postmenopausal range may be used to confirm a post-menopausal state in women not using hormonal contraception or hormonal replacement therapy. However, in the absence of 12 months of amenorrhea, a single FSH measurement is insufficient"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Subjects and their partners must be willing to avoid pregnancy during the trial. Male subjects with female partners of childbearing potential and female subjects of childbearing potential must, therefore, be willing to use adequate contraception. Contraception, starting during study screening visit throughout the study period up to 180 days after the last dose of chemotherapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Note: Abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and preferred contraception for the subject"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Age 18-70 years"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Will and ability to comply with the protocol"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Histologically proven diagnosis of rectal adenocarcinoma"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer defined by the presence of at least one of the following features: o cN2 (defined as at least 4 positive lymphnodes at pelvic MRI) o cT4 o tumor extending to within 1 mm of or beyond mesorectal fascia (i.e., circumferential radial margin threatened or involved) o cT3, N1"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Distal border of the tumour located between 5 and 12 cm from the anal verge (as measured by pelvic MRI)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) ≤1"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- No evidence of metastatic disease by total body CT-scan"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Available tumour samples at baseline (archival biopsy)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Tumour amenable to curative resection (including pelvic exenteration)"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Previous history of malignancy within the last 5 years will be excluded with the exception of localized basal and squamous cell carcinoma or cervical cancer in situ"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Active inflammatory bowel disease (i.e., patients requiring current medical interventions or who are symptomatic)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Partial or total colectomy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Pregnant or lactating women. Women of childbearing potential with either a positive or no pregnancy test at baseline. Sexually active males and females (of childbearing potential) unwilling to practice contraception during the study and until 180 days after the last trial treatment"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Known hypersensitivity to fluorouracil, oxaliplatin or irinotecan"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Psychiatric or addictive disorders, or other conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude study participation"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Active uncontrolled infections or other clinically relevant concomitant illness contraindicating chemotherapy administration"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Withdrawal of the consent to take part to the study"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients with radiological evidence of distant metastases"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Previous pelvic radiation therapy"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Symptomatic peripheral neuropathy > 2 grade NCIC-CTG criteria"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Previous treatment with fluoropyrimidine and/or oxaliplatin and/or irinotecan"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Patient with complete dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) deficiency (homozygous of the following DPYD polymorphisms: c1679GG, c1905+1AA, c2846TT)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Treatment with any investigational drug within 30 days prior to enrolment or 2 investigational agent half-lives (whichever is longer)"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Active uncontrolled infections or other clinically relevant concomitant illness contraindicating chemotherapy administration"}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Clinically significant (e.g. active) cardiovascular disease for example cerebrovascular accidents (≤6 months), myocardial infarction (≤6 months), unstable angina, New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade II or greater congestive heart failure (CHF), serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication"}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Pathological complete response (pCR) rate, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, with the absence of residual tumour cells in the resected specimens. pCR will be assessed by tumour regression grade according to Dworak et al, at the histopathological exam","definition_or_measurement_approach":"pCR defined as percentage of patients with absence of residual tumour cells in resected specimens; assessed by tumour regression grade according to Dworak et al at histopathological exam"}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall toxicity rate, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, who receive radiotherapy and at least one cycle of chemotherapy, experiencing any adverse event, according the RTOGTC during SCRT, and according to National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria (version 5.0), during the consolidation chemotherapy","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients receiving radiotherapy and ≥1 cycle chemotherapy experiencing any adverse event; RTOGTC during SCRT and NCI CTCAE v5.0 during consolidation chemotherapy"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- G3/4 toxicity rate, is defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, who receive radiotherapy and at least one cycle of chemotherapy, experiencing a specific adverse event of grade 3/4, according the RTOGTC during SCRT, and according to National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria (version 5.0), during the consolidation chemotherapy.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients receiving radiotherapy and ≥1 cycle chemotherapy experiencing grade 3/4 specific adverse events per RTOGTC during SCRT and NCI CTCAE v5.0 during consolidation chemotherapy"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- R0 Resection Rate is defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, undergoing R0 resection of primary tumour. R0 surgery is defined as microscopically margin-negative resection at the histopatological exam","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients undergoing microscopically margin-negative (R0) resection at histopathological exam"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Failure-free survival (FFS) is defined as the time from enrollment to one of the following events: non-radical surgery (non R0/R1) of the primary tumour, intrapelvic recurrence after R0/1 resection of the primary tumour, distant relapse, second primary tumour or death from any cause, whichever occurred first.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from enrollment to first of listed events; standard time-to-event analysis with censoring"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall Survival (OS) is defined as the time from enrolment to death from any cause. For patients still alive at the time of analysis, the OS time will be censored on the last date the patients were known to be alive.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from enrolment to death from any cause; censoring at last known alive date"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to distant metastases, is defined as the time from enrolment to the radiological evidence of distant metastases. The determination of the evidence of distant metastases will be based on investigator-reported measurements. Patients who are died or alive without having distant metastases at the end of the study will be censored at the date of death or their last radiological assessment, respectively.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from enrolment to radiological evidence of distant metastases based on investigator-reported measurements; censoring rules as stated"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to locoregional failure is defined as the time from the enrolment to non-radical surgery of the primary tumour (non R0/R1 resection) or intrapelvic recurrence after R0/1 resection of the primary tumour. The determination of the intrapelvic recurrence will be based on investigator-reported assessment.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from enrolment to non-radical surgery or intrapelvic recurrence per investigator assessment"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Clinical complete response (cCR) rate, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, with the absence of residual tumour (cT0cN0) at the radiological and endoscopic staging after neoadjuvant treatment.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients with absence of residual tumour (cT0cN0) at radiological and endoscopic staging after neoadjuvant treatment"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Major pathological response (MPR) rate, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total enrolled subjects, achieving TRG1-2 sec Mandard or TRG3-4 sec Dworak at the histopathological exam","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients achieving specified TRG thresholds (TRG1-2 Mandard or TRG3-4 Dworak) at histopathological exam"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Surgical mortality, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, experiencing death within 30 days after the surgery","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients dying within 30 days after surgery"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Surgical morbidities, defined as the percentage of patients, relative to the total of enrolled subjects, experiencing any post-operative complications within 30 days after the surgery","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Percentage of patients with any post-operative complications within 30 days after surgery"}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Quality of Life, (QoL) assessed using the EORTC QLQ-C30, the EORTC QLQ-CR29 and the EuroQol EQ-5D questionnaires, and Rectal Continence, assessed using LARS and St. Mark Continence scores, will be evaluate at specific time-points (baseline, after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, after surgery and during follow-up) and will be assessed through descriptive summary statistics.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"QoL assessed with EORTC QLQ-C30, QLQ-CR29, EQ-5D; rectal continence with LARS and St. Mark scores; evaluated at specified timepoints and summarised descriptively"}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
63
Recruitment Window Months
90
Consent Approach
Written informed consent required from participants; subject information and informed consent form available (document L1_Main ICF_Redatto) and privacy information (L1_Info Privacy_Redatto). Participants are adults (age 18-70) and consent is provided by the participant.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
9
Total Number Of Participants
63

Italy

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
09-10-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
19-11-2024
Processing Time Days
41
Number Of Sites
9
Number Of Participants
63

Sites

Site Name
Azienda USL Toscana Centro
Department Name
Oncologia Medica
Contact Person Name
Samantha Di Donato
Site Name
Istituto Romagnolo Per Lo Studio Dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l.
Department Name
Oncologia Medica
Contact Person Name
Alessandro Passardi
Site Name
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana
Department Name
UO Oncologia Medica 2
Contact Person Name
Roberto Moretto
Contact Person Email
robertomoretto8468@gmail.com
Site Name
Pia Fondazione Di Culto E Religione Card G Panico
Department Name
UOC Oncologia
Contact Person Name
Emiliano Tamburini
Site Name
Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale Della Romagna
Department Name
UO Oncologia
Contact Person Name
Stefano Tamberi
Contact Person Email
stefano.tamberi@auslromagna.it
Site Name
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
Department Name
UOC Oncologia 1
Contact Person Name
Alessandra Anna Prete
Site Name
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori
Department Name
SC Oncologia Medica 1
Contact Person Name
Federica Morano
Site Name
Azienda Unita' Sanitaria Locale Toscana Sud Est
Department Name
Oncologia Medica
Contact Person Name
Gemma Zucchelli
Site Name
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Department Name
UOC Oncologia Medica
Contact Person Name
Lisa Salvatore

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Gruppo Oncologico Del Nord Ovest
Organisation Type
Patient organisation/association
Country Of Registered Address
Italy

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
FLUOROURACIL
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENIOUS INFUSION
Route
Intravenous infusion
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation number: - (prodAuthStatus:2)
Dose Levels
max daily dose 50 mg/m2; max total dose 3200 mg/m2; doseUom mg/m2
Maximum Dose
3200 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
IRINOTECAN
Active Substance
IRINOTECAN HYDROCHLORIDE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENIOUS INFUSION
Route
Intravenous infusion
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation number: - (prodAuthStatus:2)
Dose Levels
max daily dose 20 mg/m2; max total dose 165 mg/m2; doseUom mg/m2
Maximum Dose
165 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
OXALIPLATIN
Active Substance
OXALIPLATIN
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENIOUS INFUSION
Route
Intravenous infusion
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation number: - (prodAuthStatus:2)
Dose Levels
max daily dose 5 mg/m2; max total dose 85 mg/m2; doseUom mg/m2
Maximum Dose
85 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
CALCIUM LEVOFOLINATE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENIOUS INFUSION
Route
Intravenous infusion
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation number: - (prodAuthStatus:2)
Dose Levels
max daily dose 25 mg/m2; max total dose 200 mg/m2; doseUom mg/m2
Maximum Dose
200 mg/m2
Combination Treatment
Yes

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