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CompletedNCT00794703Updated Mar 28, 2016

A Study to Compare Efficacy and Safety of Mycamine® and Itraconazole for Preventing Fungal Infections

A Phase 3 interventional study of micafungin (Mycamine) and itraconazole in Fungemia and Fungal Infections, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc. Completed at 10 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-03-28.

Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
288
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety between Mycamine and Itraconazole oral solution in preventing invasive fungal infections on autologous(malignant blood diseases) or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients

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Dosing of Mycamine or Itraconazole will start at the beginning of the transplant conditioning regimen or within 48 hours after the transplant conditioning regimen, and administration time should be no longer than 42 days

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Conditions studied

  • Fungemia
  • Fungal Infections

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Keywords

  • Antifungal
  • micafungin
  • itraconazole
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In context

Fungemia

32 studies on the registry are indexed under Fungemia; 3 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 288 is above the median of 200 across 20 interventional studies indexed under Fungemia.

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Lead sponsor

Astellas Pharma Inc is the lead sponsor of 525 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

Of its 28 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 19 (68%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients at risk of systemic fungal infections due to their state due to one of the following:

    • Patient with a hematologic undergoing an hematopoietic stem cell transplant
    • Any patient undergoing an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with moderate or severe liver disease, as defined by:

    • or ALT greater than 5 times (ULN), OR;
    • Total greater than 2.5 times ULN
  • Patients with evidence of a deeply invasive or disseminated fungal infection at time of enrollment
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(6)

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Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
288 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1. Micafungin

    Drug: micafungin (Mycamine)

  • Active comparator
    2. Itraconazole

    Drug: itraconazole

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Treatment success rate (fungal breakthrough rate)

    Time frame: At the end of the study

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of proven or probable invasive fungal infection

    Time frame: Throughout the study period

  2. The usage rate of systemic antifungal agents

    Time frame: During 4 weeks after the administration

  3. Time to treatment failure

    Time frame: During the study period

  4. Assessment of Adverse events, Laboratory examinations and vital signs evaluation

    Time frame: Throughout the study period

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Study locations

10 sites
  • Fuzhou, Fujian, China
  • Wuhan, Hubei, China
  • Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
  • Jiangsu, China
  • Nanning, China
  • Peking, China
  • Shanghai, China
  • Tianjin, China
  • Xian, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Huang X, Chen H, Han M, Zou P, Wu D, Lai Y, Huang H, Chen X, Liu T, Zhu H, Wang J, Hu J. Multicenter, randomized, open-label study comparing the efficacy and safety of micafungin versus itraconazole for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Oct;18(10):1509-16. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.03.014. Epub 2012 Mar 30. PubMed 22469884 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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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 Nov 2008, a primary completion of Nov 2009 and a completion of Nov 2009. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.

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Registered
Nov 19, 2008
First posted
Nov 20, 2008
Start
Nov 2008
Primary completionActual
Nov 2009
CompletionActual
Nov 2009
Last update
Mar 28, 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 Mar 28, 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
NCT00794703
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 20, 2008
Start date
Nov 2008
Primary completion
Nov 2009
Completion
Nov 2009
Last update
Mar 28, 2016

Study contacts

Use Central Contact
study chair · Astellas Pharma Inc

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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