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Bortezomib, Temozolomide, and Regional Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme or Gliosarcoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of bortezomib + temozolomide+ radiation therapy in Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors, sponsored by Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-08-28.

Sponsored by Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Bortezomib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as temozolomide, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving bortezomib together with temozolomide and radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells and allow doctors to save the part of the body where the cancer started.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well bortezomib works when given together with temozolomide and regional radiation therapy in treating patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme or gliosarcoma.

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Estimate the overall survival at 2 years of patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme treated with bortezomib in combination with temozolomide and regional radiotherapy followed by maintenance therapy comprising bortezomib and temozolomide.

Secondary

  • Investigate further the safety and tolerability of this regimen in these patients.
  • Determine the molecular characterization of tumor tissue and correlate these findings with response.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy: Patients receive bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, 8, 11, 29, 32, 36, and 39 and oral temozolomide on days 1-42. Patients undergo external-beam fractionated regional radiotherapy 5 days a week for 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
  • Maintenance: Beginning 2-6 weeks after radiotherapy, patients receive bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, 8, and 11 and oral temozolomide on days 1-5. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 24 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Tumor tissue samples are collected at baseline (from surgery) and periodically during study for further analysis.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up periodically.

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Conditions studied

  • Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors

Keywords

  • adult giant cell glioblastoma
  • adult glioblastoma
  • adult gliosarcoma
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In context

Glioblastoma

1,920 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioblastoma; 450 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 24 is below the median of 36 across 1,618 interventional studies indexed under Glioblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 396 studies on the registry; 67 are open to participants now.

Of its 37 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (5%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Must be >- 18 years old, with a life expectancy > 8 weeks
  • Histologically confirmed intracranial glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) or gliosarcoma
  • Must submit an unstained paraffin block or slides from surgical procedure
  • Patients without prior treatment and with prior diagnosis of lower-grade gliomas that have been upgraded to GBM after repeated resection allowed
  • At least 21 days since cranial MRI or contrast CT scan OR ≥ 96 hours since cranial MRI or contrast CT scan for patients who underwent surgical resection
  • Measurable or assessable disease
  • Voluntary written informed consent obtained before performance of any study related procedure not part of normal medical care.
  • Karnofsky performance status > 60%
  • White Blood Count (WBC) ≥ 3,000/mm\^3
  • absoulte neutrophil count(ANC) ≥ 1,500/mm\^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL (transfusion allowed)
  • Bilirubin \< 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) \< 2.5 times ULN
  • Creatinine \< 1.5 mg/dL
  • Creatinine clearance ≥ 20 mL/minute
  • Serum sodium > 130 mmol/L
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Patients on Enzyme-Inducing Antiepileptic Drugs (EIAED) must be transitioned to non- EAIED for ≥ 2 weeks
  • Concurrent full-dose warfarin or its equivalent (e.g., unfractionated and/or low molecular weight heparin) allowed

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2
  • Myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
  • New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV heart failure
  • Uncontrolled angina
  • Severe uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmias
  • Electrocardiographic evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities
  • hypersensitivity to bortezomib, boron, or mannitol
  • serious medical or psychiatric illness that would interfere with study participation including, but not limited to, any of the following:
  • Ongoing or active infection requiring IV antibiotics
  • Psychiatric illness and/or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
  • Disorders associated with a significant immunocompromised state (e.g., HIV, systemic lupus erythematosus)
  • history of stroke within the past 6 months
  • other malignancy within the past 3 years except completely resected basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, an in situ malignancy (i.e., cervical cancer), or low-risk prostate cancer after curative therapy
  • significant medical illness that, in the investigator's opinion, cannot be adequately controlled with appropriate therapy or would compromise the patient's ability to tolerate this therapy
  • disease that will obscure toxicity or dangerously alter drug metabolism
  • viral hepatitis (HBV surface antigen positive) or active hepatitis C infection
  • Prior or concurrent corticosteroids, automated external defibrillator, analgesics, and other drugs to treat symptoms or prevent complications allowed
  • concurrent investigational drugs that must be stopped at least 4 months prior to therapy.
  • prior radiotherapy to the brain
  • prior cytotoxic or noncytotoxic drug therapy or experimental drug therapy (including chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or immunotherapy) directed against the brain tumor
  • prior polifeprosan 20 with carmustine implant (Gliadel wafer)
  • concurrent stereotactic radiosurgery or brachytherapy
  • concurrent sargramostim
  • concurrent inducers of CYP450 3A4 (e.g., enzyme-inducing anti-epileptic drugs [EIAED])
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental

    Patients receive bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, 8, 11, 29, 32, 36, and 39 and oral temozolomide on days 1-42.Patients undergo external-beam fractionated regional radiotherapy 5 days a week for 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.2-6 weeks after radiotherapy, patients receive bortezomib IV on days 1, 4, 8, and 11 and oral temozolomide on days 1-5.Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 24 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

    Drug: bortezomib + temozolomide+ radiation therapy

Interventions

  • Drugbortezomib + temozolomide+ radiation therapy

    Patients will be treated with Bortezomib at 1.3 mg/m2 IV on days1,4,8,11,29,32,36 and 39 and Temozolomide on 75mg/m2 daily during radiation. External beam fractionated regional radiation will be given on consecutive week days at 200 centigray (cGy) daily doses to a total dose of 6000 cGy.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival

    Estimate the overall survival in subjects with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) treated with bortezomib/temozolomide/radiation followed by bortezomib/temozolomide for 24 cycles until progression is detected or for up to 24 cycles (\~2 years).

    Time frame: 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Toxicity Assessed According to the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 3.

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Time to Progression

    Median time to tumor progression. Because many newly-diagnosed patients are likely not to have evaluable disease due to gross total resections. A 7-point scale was used to guide Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assessment to determine progression in this study. A -2 or -3 assessment will be taken as progression. The 7-point scale is listed below. complete resolution of tumor: 3 tumor definitely smaller: 2 tumor probably smaller: 1 tumor unchanged: 0 tumor probably worse: -1 tumor definitely worse: -2 new lesion: -3

    Time frame: From the completion of radiation treatment to tumor progression

  3. Survival at 1 Year

    Overall Survival at 12 months from completion of radiation treatment

    Time frame: 1 year

  4. Tumor Progression as Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Neurologic Exam

    MRI will be done 2 weeks after completion of radiation and then every 8 weeks. Neurologic exam to be performed every 2 weeks during radiation therapy, then every every 4 weeks after radiation is completed.

    Time frame: at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months from completion of radiation treatment.

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Results

Posted Jul 17, 2020
Limitations and caveats
Enrolls newly diagnosed GBM patient and requires collection of frozen and paraffin tumor tissue in all study patients from original surgery. Tissues for methylated (MGHT) and isocitrate dehydrogengenotyping and correlative molecular characterization

Participant flow

Recruitment period: 10/03/2011 - 4/17/2015 Location: University of California at Los Angeles, Columbia University, New York.

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneExperimental
Started24
Completed24
Not completed0

Outcome measures

PrimaryOverall Survival

Estimate the overall survival in subjects with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) treated with bortezomib/temozolomide/radiation followed by bortezomib/temozolomide for 24 cycles until progression is detected or for up to 24 cycles (\~2 years).

Time frame:
2 years
Reported as:
Mean · months
Overall Survival
monthsExperimental
Overall Survival19.1 (6.7 to 31.4)
SecondaryToxicity Assessed According to the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 3.
Time frame:
2 years
Reported as:
Count of participants · Participants
Toxicity Assessed According to the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 3.
ParticipantsExperimental
Radiotherapy phase — Grade 3 toxicity6
Radiotherapy phase — Grade 4 Toxicity1
Radiotherapy phase — < Grade 3 Toxicity17
Post Radiotherapy phase — Grade 3 toxicity7
Post Radiotherapy phase — Grade 4 Toxicity0
Post Radiotherapy phase — < Grade 3 Toxicity17
Follow-up phase — Grade 3 toxicity0
Follow-up phase — Grade 4 Toxicity0
Follow-up phase — < Grade 3 Toxicity24
SecondaryTime to Progression

Median time to tumor progression. Because many newly-diagnosed patients are likely not to have evaluable disease due to gross total resections. A 7-point scale was used to guide Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assessment to determine progression in this study. A -2 or -3 assessment will be taken as progression. The 7-point scale is listed below. complete resolution of tumor: 3 tumor definitely smaller: 2 tumor probably smaller: 1 tumor unchanged: 0 tumor probably worse: -1 tumor definitely worse: -2 new lesion: -3

Time frame:
From the completion of radiation treatment to tumor progression
Reported as:
Median · months
Time to Progression
monthsExperimental
Time to Progression6.2 (3.7 to 8.8)
SecondarySurvival at 1 Year

Overall Survival at 12 months from completion of radiation treatment

Time frame:
1 year
Reported as:
Median · percentage of participants
Survival at 1 Year
percentage of participantsExperimental
Survival at 1 Year87.5 (66.1 to 95.8)
SecondaryTumor Progression as Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Neurologic Exam

MRI will be done 2 weeks after completion of radiation and then every 8 weeks. Neurologic exam to be performed every 2 weeks during radiation therapy, then every every 4 weeks after radiation is completed.

Time frame:
at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months from completion of radiation treatment.
Reported as:
Median · percentage of participants
Tumor Progression as Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Neurologic Exam
percentage of participantsExperimental
Progression Free Survival rate at 6 months54.2 (32.7 to 71.4)
Progression Free Survival rate at 12 months29.2 (13.0 to 47.6)
Progression Free Survival rate at 18 months25.0 (10.2 to 43.1)
Progression Free Survival rate at 24 moths25 (10.2 to 43.1)

Adverse events

Collected over Adverse Events data was collected up to 2 years from the completion of radiation treatment. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
Experimental15/24 (62.5%)5/24 (20.8%)24/24 (100%)
Most frequent serious events
Most frequent serious events
EventExperimental
RashSkin and subcutaneous tissue disorders1/24
ShinglesInfections and infestations1/24
HydrocephalusNervous system disorders1/24
CraniotomyNervous system disorders1/24
Pullmonary embolismRespiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders1/24
Most frequent other events
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Most frequent other events
EventExperimental
FatigueGeneral disorders17/24
lymphopeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders14/24
HeadacheNervous system disorders14/24
Injection site reactionSkin and subcutaneous tissue disorders13/24
NauseaGastrointestinal disorders11/24
AnemiaBlood and lymphatic system disorders9/24
LeukocytopeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders9/24
ConstipationGastrointestinal disorders8/24
ThrombocytopeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders7/24
NeutropeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders6/24

Baseline characteristics

Twenty-four patients with newly diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme were enrolled in this study

Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)Experimental
Age Range57 (27 to 75)
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)Experimental
Female11
Male13
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Experimental
American Indian or Alaska Native0
Asian2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander0
Black or African American1
White18
More than one race0
Unknown or Not Reported3
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)Experimental
United States24
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Study locations

1 site
  • University of California Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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References and documents

Study documents

  • Protocol and statistical analysis plan · Feb 11, 2014
  • Informed consent form · Jan 21, 2015

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 28, 2020, 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
NCT00998010
Lead sponsor
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Collaborators
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 20, 2009
Start date
Oct 3, 2011
Primary completion
Mar 29, 2016
Completion
Apr 20, 2018
Results posted
Jul 17, 2020
Last update
Aug 28, 2020

Study contacts

Albert Lai, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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