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CompletedNCT00369174Updated Feb 13, 2013

Rosiglitazone Maleate in Treating Patients With Oral Leukoplakia

A Phase 2 interventional study of rosiglitazone maleate and laboratory biomarker analysis in Oral Leukoplakia, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-02-13.

Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-13

Among 20 studies in Leukoplakia, Oral with a site in United States — 1 open to participants now, 3 under way, none of them phase 3. Leukoplakia, Oral · United States.

Enrollment
9th of 15
25 · median 26
Started
2006
with 1 other
Phase 2
11 of 20
1 open now
Registered
9th of 20
by date
Lead sponsor
7 of 20
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Among the 20 studies in Leukoplakia, Oral with a site in United States, this one is the 9th largest by enrollment of the 15 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2006, is one of 11 in phase 2, and was the 9th registered.

Leukoplakia, Oral

48 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukoplakia, Oral; 11 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 7 Leukoplakia, Oral studies recruiting now, 5 set no upper age limit and none stop at 75 or younger; none take children under 18; 1 takes healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This phase II trial is studying how well rosiglitazone works in preventing oral cancer in patients with oral leukoplakia. Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing, or coming back. The use of rosiglitazone may keep cancer from forming in patients with oral leukoplakia

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the rate of clinical response of oral premalignant lesions (OPL) to 12 weeks of therapy with rosiglitazone (Avandia), 8 mg daily, defined as greater than or equal to 50% reduction in the measured product of perpendicular dimension of the target lesion, or improvement in the degree of dysplasia.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the rate and degree of change of putative biomarkers of rosiglitazone efficacy including:

COX-2, cyclin D1, Ki-67, p21/waf1, PPAR gamma, K1 cytokeratin, involucrin, transglutaminase expressions, and TUNEL.

II. To estimate the correlation between DNA ploidy measurements in OPL with clinical response and or response of biomarkers to rosiglitazone therapy, and to estimate the efficacy of rosiglitazone therapy to normalize aberrant DNA ploidy in OPL.

III. To thoroughly assess smoking patterns among trial participants and to examine the relationship of smoking to treatment response.

IV. To assess the safety of this agent in short-term use in this population.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, open-label, nonrandomized study.

Patients receive oral rosiglitazone once daily. Treatment continues for 12 weeks in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 1 week.

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Conditions studied

  • Oral Leukoplakia

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Males or females with a suspected or confirmed index oral premalignant lesion (excluding carcinoma in situ), 12mm or greater in size that has not been biopsied in the past 6 weeks; each index lesion must be either a:

    • dysplastic measurable leukoplakia or erythroplakia in the oral cavity or accessible oropharynx, or
    • hyperplastic leukoplakia of high-risk sites, lateral and ventral tongue and floor of mouth
  • The subject's is > 12 weeks and performance score is 70-100%
  • and hematocrit levels above the lower limit of normal
  • White blood cells >= 3,000/uL
  • >= 125,000/uL
  • Total =\< 1.5 x
  • (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) =\< 1.5 x ULN
  • BUN and serum creatinine =\< 1.5 x ULN
  • LDH =\< 1.5 x ULN
  • If the subject is female and of (women are considered not of childbearing potential if they are at least two years and/or surgically sterile), she:

    • has been using adequate (abstinence, IUD, birth control pills, or spermicidal gel with diaphragm or condom) since her last menses and will use adequate contraception during the study, AND
    • is not lactating, AND
    • has a documented negative serum pregnancy test within 14 days prior to randomization
  • The subject has discontinued any other oral cancer chemopreventive therapy at least 12 weeks prior to the Baseline visit and all toxicities have been fully resolved; daily aspirin is permitted
  • The subject is willing and able to fully participate for the duration of the study
  • If applicable, the subject has been counseled on smoking cessation
  • The effects of rosiglitazone (Avandia) on the developing human fetus at the recommended therapeutic dose are unknown; for this reason, and because rosiglitazone has been associated with fetal death and growth retardation in rats and rabbits and placental pathology in rats, women of child-bearing potential must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her study physician immediately and will be removed from the trial
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written document
  • The subject is of (NYHA) Class 1 to 4 cardiac status

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The subject has active cancer or carcinoma in situ of the head and neck
  • The subject has a to
  • The subject has any history of congestive heart failure, any history of myocardial infarction, angina, or coronary artery disease within the past 6 months, or active cardiac disease
  • The subject exhibits clinical evidence of active liver disease, history of chronic liver disease or edema
  • The subject currently receives insulin, sulfonylurea or metformin (doses of rosiglitazone greater than 4 mg daily in combination with these therapies are not currently indicated; because this protocol uses the maximum recommended dose of 8 mg daily, subjects on insulin, sulfonylurea or metformin will be ineligible for participation in this trial); the subject is currently receiving thiazolidinediones; the subject is a diabetic not on treatment or hyperglycemic (has a random blood glucose level > 200 mg/dl); the subject has diabetic macular edema
  • The subject is currently receiving medical therapy for dysregulated blood sugar
  • The subject has experienced jaundice with Rezulin® (troglitazone)
  • The subject has known to rosiglitazone, Avandia, or any of its components
  • The subject has a history of colorectal cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)
  • The subject has a history of invasive cancer within the past 18 months (excluding non-invasive bladder cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer and in situ cervical cancer); subjects (excluding those with a history of colorectal cancer, FAP or HNPCC) who received curative treatment and have shown no evidence of recurrence for 18 months will be eligible
  • The subject has had chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal therapy (other than HRT for menopause), or radiation therapy within 18 months of the Baseline visit
  • The subject will need concurrent chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal (other than HRT for menopause), or immunotherapy during the time of study
  • The subject has received any medication within 30 days of the Baseline visit or is scheduled to receive an investigational drug during the course of the study
  • The subject participated in the study previously and was withdrawn
  • The subject is pregnant or nursing
  • Subjects who have had the study drug prior to this study
  • The subject has uncontrolled intercurrent illness including: ongoing or active infection, , symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(18)

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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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

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.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

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.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment (rosiglitazone maleate)

    Patients receive oral rosiglitazone once daily. Treatment continues for 12 weeks in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.

    Drug: rosiglitazone maleate · Other: laboratory biomarker analysis

Interventions

  • Given orally

    Also known as: Avandia, BRL49653, ROS

  • Otherlaboratory biomarker analysis

    Correlative studies

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of subjects who show complete or partial response in either clinical or histological outcomes

    Estimated together with 95% confidence interval. The confidence interval will be constructed using exact binomial confidence intervals (rather than the normal approximation).

    Time frame: 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Tissue expressions of COX-2, cyclin D1, Ki-67, p21/waf1, PPAR gamma, K1 cytokeratin, involucrin, and transglutaminase, and tissues levels of apoptosis (assessed using TUNEL)

    Summarized at each time point using summary statistics such as the mean, median, and range. The changes in levels of these biomarkers will also be explored with similar summary statistics and with graphical methods as well.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  2. Tissue DNA ploidy

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  3. Smoking and alcohol use

    Assessed descriptively. Fisher's exact test may be used to assess whether there is a significant association between smoking status and efficacy of rosiglitazone.

    Time frame: Up to 12 weeks

  4. Adverse events defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a study participant, graded using the NCI CTCAE version 3.0

    Descriptively summarized in tabular form.

    Time frame: Up to 12 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10065, United States
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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 Jun 2006 and a primary completion of Aug 2007. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.

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Registered
Aug 24, 2006
First posted
Aug 29, 2006
Start
Jun 2006
Primary completionActual
Aug 2007
Last update
Feb 13, 2013
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.
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 Feb 13, 2013, 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
NCT00369174
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 29, 2006
Start date
Jun 2006
Primary completion
Aug 2007
Last update
Feb 13, 2013

Study contacts

Jay Boyle
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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