Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

LURBINECTEDIN for Desmoplastic small round cell tumor

Phase II trial of LURBINECTEDIN for Desmoplastic small round cell tumor. open-label, none/not specified-controlled. 20 participants.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Small molecule|Small molecule
Paediatric Trial
Yes

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
13-06-2025
First CTIS Authorization Date
30-09-2025

Trial design

open-label, none/not specified-controlled Phase II trial in Italy, Spain.

Open Label
Yes
Comparator
None/Not specified
Target Sample Size
20

Eligibility

Recruits 20 paediatric patients.

Pregnancy Exclusion
Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test (preferable by serum or, if serum test unavailable, urine beta-HCG) within 7 days before treatment start.
Vulnerable Population
The trial includes vulnerable participants (isVulnerablePopulationSelected = true): adolescents aged 15-17 are eligible. Study documentation includes subject information and informed consent forms for minors (15-17 years), separate parent/legal guardian ICFs, and investigator materials directed at pediatricians/GPs. Consent must be provided in writing by the participant or legal representative as applicable; for minors parental/legal guardian consent is provided alongside minor-specific information/assent materials. ICF materials are available in country-specific versions (Italian and Spanish versions are present).

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"-Histological centrally confirmed diagnosis of DSRCT with the documented presence of EWSR1-WT1 translocation.\n-Age ≥ 15 years\n-Locally advanced (i.e. radical surgical resection of local disease unfeasible or surgery declined by the patient or surgery deemed to become less demolitive and / or easier after cytoreduction) and/or metastatic disease.\n-Measurable disease by RECIST v1.1\n-Clinical or objective disease progression after the last administration of the last standard therapy, or have stopped standard therapy due to intolerability within 6 months from enrollment.\n-At least one prior chemotherapy based on anthracycline (considering chemotherapy administered for primary tumour) and no more than 3 prior chemotherapy lines.\n-Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status (PS) ≤ 2.\n-Adequate bone marrow, renal, hepatic, and metabolic function (assessed ≤ 7 days before inclusion in the trial), defined as the following: a.\tplatelet count ≥ 100 × 109/L, hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL, white blood cells ≥ 3.0 × 109/L and absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 2.0 × 109/L, b.\t aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3.0 × the upper limit of normal (ULN), even in the presence of liver metastases, c.\ttotal bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN or direct bilirubin ≤ ULN, d.\tInternational Normalized Ratio (INR) < 1.5 (except if patient is on oral anticoagulation therapy), e.\tcalculated creatinine clearance (CrCL) ≥ 30 mL/minute (using Cockcroft-Gault formula), f.\tcreatine phosphokinase (CPK) ≤ 2.5 × ULN, g.\talbumin ≥ 3.0 g/dL\n-Cardiac ejection fraction ≥50% as measured by echocardiogram.\n-Recovery to grade ≤ 1 or to baseline from any adverse event (AE) derived from previous treatment (excluding alopecia and/or cutaneous toxicity and/or fatigue grade ≤ 2).\n-No history of arterial and/or venous thromboembolic event within the previous 12 months.\n-Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test (preferable by serum or, if serum test unavailable, urine beta-HCG) within 7 days before treatment start.\n-Post-menopausal women must be amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing potential.\n-Male and female patients of reproductive potential must agree to employ a highly effective method of birth control (Acceptable methods of contraception are described in Appendix 5) throughout the study and thereafter, at the end of study treatment, and for at least 7 months from the patient’s last lurbinectedin administration in female patients of childbearing potential and for at least 4 months in men in fertile age after the last lurbinectedin administration.\n-The patient or legal representative must be able to read and understand the informed consent form (ICF) and must have been willing to give written informed consent and any locally required authorisation before any study-specific procedures, including screening evaluations, sampling, and analyses."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"-Prior treatment with lurbinectedin or trabectedin, Ecubectedin (PM 14) or PM54.\n-Known hypersensitivity to irinotecan or lurbinectedin or any of their components of the drugs products (excipients)\n-Other primary malignancy with <5 years clinically assessed disease free interval, except basal cell skin cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ or other neoplasm judged to entail a low risk of relapse.\n-History or presence of unstable angina, myocardial infarction, or clinically significant valvular heart disease within 12 months of the study.\n-Grade III/IV cardiac problems as defined by the New York Heart Association Criteria (i.e. congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within 12 months of study).\n-Symptomatic arrhythmia or any uncontrolled arrhythmia requiring ongoing treatment within 12 months of study.\n-Myopathy or any clinical situation that causes significant and persistent elevation of CPK (> 2.5 × ULN in two different determinations performed one week apart).\n-Severe and/or uncontrolled medical disease (i.e. uncontrolled diabetes, chronic renal disease, or active uncontrolled infection).\n-Known active brain metastasis.\n-Known chronic liver disease (i.e. chronic active hepatitis and cirrhosis).\n-Diagnosis of human deficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection or active hepatitis B (to be excluded during the screening period).\n-Any past or present chronic inflammatory colon and/or liver disease, past intestinal obstruction, pseudo or sub-occlusion or paralysis.\n-Evident symptomatic pulmonary fibrosis or interstitial pneumonitis, pleural or cardiac effusion rapidly increasing and/or necessitating prompt local treatment within seven days.\n-Any other major illness that, in the Investigator’s judgment, will substantially increase the risk associated with the patient’s participation in this study.\n-Known active COVID-19 disease (this includes positive test for SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swabs or nasal swabs by PCR).\n-Prior bone marrow and/or stem cell transplantation, and allogenic transplant.\n-Last dose of systemic cytotoxic therapy or investigational therapy within 21 days from enrollment.\n-Prior treatment with any form of radiation therapy within 14 days from enrollment.\n-Major surgery within 3 weeks prior to study entry and minor surgery within 1 week prior to study entry.\n-Use of strong inducers of CYP3A activity within two weeks prior to the first infusion of lurbinectedin (Appendix 6).\n-Expected limitation of the patient’s ability to comply with the treatment or follow-up protocol.\n-Subjects who have current active hepatic or biliary disease (with exception of patients with asymptomatic gallstones, liver metastasis or stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment).\n-Subjects who have known Gilbert’s syndrome.\n-Patient has received a live or liver attenuated vaccines within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention. Killed vaccines are allowed."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"-Overall tumour Response Rate (ORR), according to RECIST v 1.1","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Assessed according to RECIST v1.1 (radiological tumour response criteria)."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"-Overall Survival (OS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Overall survival measured from date of study entry to date of death (standard time-to-event endpoint)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Progression Free Survival (PFS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Progression-free survival assessed per RECIST v1.1 (time from study entry to radiological progression or death)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Duration of Response (DoR)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Duration of response measured from first documented response to progression or death."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-Safety (according to CTC-AE v.5)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Adverse events graded using CTCAE v5.0."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"-EORTC-QLQ-C30 and brief inventory pain","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Patient-reported quality of life assessed with EORTC QLQ-C30 and brief pain inventory instruments."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
20
Recruitment Window Months
60
Consent Approach
Informed consent is required in writing from the patient or legal representative prior to any study procedures. There are age-specific consent/assent materials: adult ICFs and subject information sheets, minor (15-17 years) ICFs/assent materials, and parent/legal guardian ICFs. Documents are provided in country-specific versions (Italian and Spanish versions of ICFs and information materials are included in the dossier).

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
11
Total Number Of Participants
20

Italy

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
02-09-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
30-09-2025
Processing Time Days
28
Number Of Sites
5
Number Of Participants
10

Sites

Site Name
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
Department Name
Onclogy, Medical Oncology 1 Unit
Principal Investigator Name
Antonella Brunello
Principal Investigator Email
antonella.brunello@iov.veneto.it
Contact Person Name
Antonella Brunello
Site Name
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori
Department Name
Oncologia Medica 2 - Tumori Mesenchimali dell'adulto e Tumori Rari
Principal Investigator Name
Silvia Stacchiotti
Principal Investigator Email
Silvia.Stacchiotti@istitutotumori.mi.it
Contact Person Name
Silvia Stacchiotti
Site Name
Azienda USL Toscana Centro
Department Name
UO Oncologia Medica
Principal Investigator Name
Giacomo Giulio Baldi
Principal Investigator Email
giacomogiulio.baldi@uslcentro.toscana.it
Contact Person Name
Giacomo Giulio Baldi
Site Name
Istituto Di Candiolo Fondazione Del Piemonte Per L'Oncologia IRCCS
Department Name
Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Sandra Aliberti
Principal Investigator Email
sandra.aliberti@ircc.it
Contact Person Name
Sandra Aliberti
Contact Person Email
sandra.aliberti@ircc.it
Site Name
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-medico In Forma A Bbreviata Fon
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Alessandro Mazzocca
Principal Investigator Email
a.mazzocca@policlinicocampus.it
Contact Person Name
Alessandro Mazzocca

Spain

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
29-09-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
02-10-2025
Processing Time Days
3
Number Of Sites
6
Number Of Participants
10

Sites

Site Name
Hospital Universitario Fundacion Jimenez Diaz
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Nadia Hindi Muniz
Principal Investigator Email
nhindi@atbsarc.org
Contact Person Name
Nadia Hindi Muniz
Contact Person Email
nhindi@atbsarc.org
Site Name
Fundacio Hospital Universitari Vall D’Hebron Institut De Recerca
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Claudia Valverde Morales
Principal Investigator Email
cvalverde@vhio.net
Contact Person Name
Claudia Valverde Morales
Contact Person Email
cvalverde@vhio.net
Site Name
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet
Department Name
Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Javier Martìnez Trufero
Principal Investigator Email
jmtrufero@seom.org
Contact Person Name
Javier Martìnez Trufero
Contact Person Email
jmtrufero@seom.org
Site Name
Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Department Name
Medical Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Gloria Marquina Ospina
Principal Investigator Email
gloria.marquina@salud.madrid.org
Contact Person Name
Gloria Marquina Ospina
Site Name
University Hospital Virgen Del Rocio S.L.
Department Name
Oncology
Principal Investigator Name
Irene Carrasco Garcia
Principal Investigator Email
irenecg1990@gmail.com
Contact Person Name
Irene Carrasco Garcia
Contact Person Email
irenecg1990@gmail.com
Site Name
HOSPITAL CLINICO UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA
Principal Investigator Name
Josè Luis Alonso Romero
Principal Investigator Email
josel.alonso2@carm.es
Contact Person Name
Josè Luis Alonso Romero
Contact Person Email
josel.alonso2@carm.es

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Italian Sarcoma Group
Organisation Type
Patient organisation/association
Country Of Registered Address
Italy

Third parties

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  • {"country":"","full_name":"Rising Tide Foundation","duties_or_roles":"Source of monetary support","organisation_type":""}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
lurbinectedin
Active Substance
LURBINECTEDIN
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
prodAuthStatus: 1
Maximum Dose
maxTotalDoseAmount: 55.47 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
Irinotecán Accord 20 mg/ml concentrado para solución para perfusión EFG
Active Substance
IRINOTECAN HYDROCHLORIDE TRIHYDRATE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
prodAuthStatus: 2
Maximum Dose
maxTotalDoseAmount: 780 mg/m2 (maxDailyDoseAmount: 30 mg/m2)
Combination Treatment
Yes

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