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CompletedNCT00287846Updated Aug 30, 2016

Imatinib Mesylate in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Fibromatosis

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of imatinib mesylate in Desmoid Tumor, sponsored by UNICANCER. Completed at 23 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 120 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-08-30.

Sponsored by UNICANCER · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 120 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Imatinib mesylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of imatinib mesylate and to see how well it works in treating patients with recurrent or refractory aggressive fibromatosis.

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Determine the non-progression rate in patients with recurrent or refractory aggressive fibromatosis after 3 months of treatment with imatinib mesylate.

Secondary

  • Determine the non-progression rate in patients after being treated with this drug for 12 months.
  • Determine the toxic effects of this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the tolerance to this drug in these patients.
  • Determine the response rate in patients treated with this drug
  • Determine progression free and overall survival of patients treated with this drug.
  • Determine the quality of life of patients treated with this drug.
  • Correlate clinical, biological, and genomic markers with response and long-term stable disease in patients treated with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive oral imatinib mesylate once daily for up to 12 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Quality of life is assessed periodically.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 39 patients will be accrued for this study.

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Conditions studied

  • Desmoid Tumor

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Keywords

  • desmoid tumor
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In context

Desmoid Tumors

71 studies on the registry are indexed under Desmoid Tumors; 21 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 40 is close to the median of 44 across 47 interventional studies indexed under Desmoid Tumors.

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Lead sponsor

UNICANCER is the lead sponsor of 219 studies on the registry; 52 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 120 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • confirmed aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumor)
  • Relapse or disease progression despite surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or any other treatment
  • Tumors must meet the following criteria:

    • Ineligible for complete surgical resection by carcinological exeresis OR surgery would cause severe mutilation
    • Cannot be treated with curative radiotherapy
  • by criteria
  • No prior

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective during and for 6 months after completion of study treatment
  • > 1,000/mm\^3
  • count > 100,000/mm\^3
  • \< 1.5 times (ULN)
  • and SGPT \< 2.5 times ULN
  • Creatinine ≤ 2.5 times normal
  • No severe liver failure
  • No chronic somatic or psychiatric illness that would preclude study compliance
  • No known to imatinib mesylate or one of its components
  • No geographical, social, or psychological reason that would inhibit follow-up

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No concurrent immunomodulators*
  • No concurrent hormonal treatments* if used for fibromatosis
  • No concurrent cytotoxic drugs*
  • No concurrent nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug* if used for fibromatosis

    • Allowed if used as an analgesic 3 months prior to disease progression
  • No concurrent participation in another therapeutic trial NOTE: *If disease progression has occurred during this treatment, then the treatment must have ended ≥ 1 month prior to study entry
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
40 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Imatinib

    400 to 800 mg/day for a maximal 12 months study duration.

    Drug: imatinib mesylate

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Non-progression rate

    Time frame: 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Non-progression rate

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Toxic effects

    Time frame: 12 months

  3. Tolerance

    Time frame: 12 months

  4. Response rate

    Time frame: 5 years

  5. Progression-free survival

    Time frame: the time between the inclusion date and the progression date

  6. Overall survival

    Time frame: the time between the inclusion date and the death whathever the cause

  7. Quality of life

    Time frame: 5 years

  8. Correlation of clinical, biological, and genomic markers with response and long-term stable disease

    Time frame: 5 years

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Study locations

23 sites
  • Centre Paul Papin
    Angers, 49036, France
  • Centre Hospitalier Regional de Besancon - Hopital Jean Minjoz
    Besancon, 25030, France
  • Institut Bergonie
    Bordeaux, 33076, France
  • Centre Regional Francois Baclesse
    Caen, 14076, France
  • Centre Oscar Lambret
    Lille, 59020, France
  • Centre Leon Berard
    Lyon, 69373, France
  • Hopital Edouard Herriot - Lyon
    Lyon, 69437, France
  • CHU de la Timone
    Marseille, 13385, France
  • Centre Regional de Lutte Contre le Cancer - Centre Val d'Aurelle
    Montpellier, 34298, France
  • CRLCC Nantes - Atlantique
    Nantes-Saint Herblain, 44805, France
  • Institut Curie Hopital
    Paris, 75248, France
  • Hopital Tenon
    Paris, 75970, France
  • Institut Jean Godinot
    Reims, 51056, France
  • Centre Eugene Marquis
    Rennes, 35042, France
  • Centre Henri Becquerel
    Rouen, 76038, France
  • Centre Rene Huguenin
    Saint Cloud, 92211, France
  • Centre Paul Strauss
    Strasbourg, 67065, France
  • Hopitaux Universitaire de Strasbourg
    Strasbourg, 67091, France
  • Hopital Foch
    Suresnes, 92151, France
  • Institut Claudius Regaud
    Toulouse, 31052, France
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bretonneau de Tours
    Tours, 37044, France
  • Centre Alexis Vautrin
    Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, 54511, France
  • Institut Gustave Roussy
    Villejuif, F-94805, France
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References and documents

Publications

  • Penel N, Le Cesne A, Bui BN, Perol D, Brain EG, Ray-Coquard I, Guillemet C, Chevreau C, Cupissol D, Chabaud S, Jimenez M, Duffaud F, Piperno-Neumann S, Mignot L, Blay JY. Imatinib for progressive and recurrent aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumors): an FNCLCC/French Sarcoma Group phase II trial with a long-term follow-up. Ann Oncol. 2011 Feb;22(2):452-7. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdq341. Epub 2010 Jul 9. PubMed 20622000 ↗
  • Fayette J, Dufresne A, Penel N, et al.: Imatinib for the treatment of aggressive fibromatosis/desmoid tumors (AF/DT) failing local treatment: updated outcome and predictive factors for progression free survival: a FNCLCC French Sarcoma Group-GETO study. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 25 (Suppl 18): A-10062, 560s, 2007.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Individual Participant data will not be shared at an individual level.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
Not marked actual or estimatedDates not marked actual or estimated

The record gives a start of Sep 2004, a primary completion of Feb 2006 and a completion of Jun 2010. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 6, 2006
First posted
Feb 7, 2006
Start
Sep 2004
Primary completionActual
Feb 2006
CompletionActual
Jun 2010
Last update
Aug 30, 2016
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 30, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00287846
Lead sponsor
UNICANCER
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 7, 2006
Start date
Sep 2004
Primary completion
Feb 2006
Completion
Jun 2010
Last update
Aug 30, 2016

Study contacts

Jean-Yves Blay, MD, PhD
study chair · Hopital Edouard Herriot - Lyon

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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