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CompletedNCT01409343Updated May 7, 2021

TrasGEX™: Phase 1 Study in Cancer Patients

A Phase 1 interventional study of TrasGEX™ in Solid Tumors, sponsored by Glycotope GmbH. Completed at 5 sites in 4 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-05-07.

Sponsored by Glycotope GmbH · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
37
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This was a prospective, open label, multicenter study evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of TrasGEX™ after intravenous administration in patients with HER-2 positive cancers. The effect of TrasGEX™ on the development of anti-drug antibodies and on tumour response was also evaluated.

Read the detailed description

Adult patients with advanced and/or metastatic HER2-positive cancer who were resistant to or for whom there was no standard anti-tumor therapy available at the time of enrollment and who had an estimated life expectancy of at least 3 months were eligible for participation in this study.

Patients were to receive the study drug until disease progression (clinical or radiologic), unacceptable toxicity, or any other reason leading to termination of study treatment.

Dose-escalation was performed in 3 to 6-patient cohorts.

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Conditions studied

  • Solid Tumors

Keywords

  • advanced solid cancers
  • metastatic solid cancers
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In context

Lead sponsor

Glycotope GmbH is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; none 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 and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Main Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Signed written granted prior to initiation of any study-specific procedures;
  2. Male or female patients of ≥18 years of age;
  3. (HER-2) gene amplification or ERBB2 overexpression
  4. or cytologically confirmed cancer, either locally advanced or ;
  5. No anti-tumor therapy of proven benefit available at study enrollment;
  6. of >=3 months;
  7. (ECOG) performance status (PS) \<=2;
  8. Male or female patients of child-producing potential must agree to use measures or oral contraception during the study and for 28 days after the last dose of TrasGEX™;
  9. Female patients of must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to the first dose of TrasGEX™;

and

Main Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Anti-cancer chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or agents within 4 weeks of the first dose of TrasGEX™;
  2. Major surgery within four weeks of the first dose of TrasGEX™;
  3. Newly diagnosed , metastases that have been documented to be stable for \<3 months, or metastases for which systemic are required;
  4. History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition as TrasGEX™;
  5. History of myocardial infarction within 12 months of the administration of the first dose of TrasGEX™;
  6. History of congestive heart failure defined as Class II to IV per classification within 12 months of the administration of the first dose of TrasGEX™;
  7. \<50%;
  8. Previous other than the current diagnosis within 5 years of the first dose of TrasGEX™;
  9. Pregnancy or lactation; and
  10. Concurrent uncontrolled significant illness
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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Informed consent

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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.

HER2

HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.

In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.

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.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

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.

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.

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.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TrasGEX

    A total of 37 patients with advanced HER2-positive carcinomas and progressive disease.

    Drug: TrasGEX™

Interventions

  • DrugTrasGEX™

    Patients received TrasGEX intravenously every 3 weeks until disease progression in doses of 12-720 mg in a three-plus-three dose escalation design, including an expansion cohort at the highest dose.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. optimal dose and regimen of TrasGEX™

    The primary objective of this first-in-man study is to determine the optimal dose and regimen of TrasGEX™ in patients with locally advanced or metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2)-positive cancer. The recommended phase II dose needs to have an acceptable safety profile and provides evidence for efficacy based on clinical observations or the pharmacokinetic profile.

    Time frame: up to at least 8 weeks after the first TrasGEX™ administration

Secondary outcomes

  1. To determine preliminary evidence of activity

    CT or MRI imaging will be performed. Assessment of tumor response (SD, PR, CR. PD) will be performed following a modified version of the revised RECIST guidelines, version 1.1. Basically, patients will receive treatment with TrasGEX™ until progression of disease and/or unacceptable toxicities are observed.

    Time frame: approx. every 8 weeks

  2. safety and tolerability of TrasGEX™

    To assess the safety and tolerability of TrasGEX™ in patients with advanced and/or metastatic HER-2-positive cancer at various dose levels considering observed adverse events, laboratory values, vital signs, ECOG performance status and physical examination.

    Time frame: until 4 weeks after the last treatment with TrasGEX™

  3. To assess the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of TrasGEX™ (part I)

    c(max): to determine the PK profile samples will be taken before the first infusion and up to 24 h after after infusion, followed by weekly samples for the first infusion and samples immediately before and after infusion for the following infusions

    Time frame: prior to 1st infusion until the end of 5th infusion

  4. To assess the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of TrasGEX™ (part II)

    t(1/2): to determine the PK profile samples will be taken before the first infusion and up to 24 h after after infusion, followed by weekly samples for the first infusion and samples immediately before and after infusion for the following infusions

    Time frame: prior to 1st infusion until the end of 5th infusion

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Study locations

5 sites
  • Glycotope Investigational Site
    Graz, 8036, Austria
  • Glycotope Investigational Site
    Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
  • Glycotope Investigational Site
    Hamburg, 20246, Germany
  • Glycotope Investigational Site
    Milan, Italy
  • Glycotope Investigational Site
    Bellinzona, Switzerland
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References and documents

Publications

  • Fiedler W, Stoeger H, Perotti A, Gastl G, Weidmann J, Dietrich B, Baumeister H, Danielczyk A, Goletz S, Salzberg M, De Dosso S. Phase I study of TrasGEX, a glyco-optimised anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody, in patients with HER2-positive solid tumours. ESMO Open. 2018 Jun 23;3(4):e000381. doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2018-000381. eCollection 2018. PubMed 30018811 ↗
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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 Jul 2011, a primary completion of Nov 2013 and a completion of Dec 2013. 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
Jul 18, 2011
First posted
Aug 4, 2011
Start
Jul 2011
Primary completionActual
Nov 2013
CompletionActual
Dec 2013
Last update
May 7, 2021
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 May 7, 2021, 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
NCT01409343
Lead sponsor
Glycotope GmbH
Collaborators
Glycotope Biotechnology GmbH
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 4, 2011
Start date
Jul 2011
Primary completion
Nov 2013
Completion
Dec 2013
Last update
May 7, 2021

Study contacts

Glycotope GmbH
study director · Glycotope GmbH

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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