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Phase II Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Lenvatinib for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of Lenvatinib in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, sponsored by Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Completed at 23 sites in Japan. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-06-17.

Sponsored by Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
39
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this phase Ⅱ study is to assess the efficacy and safety of lenvatinib for anaplastic thyroid cancer patients who are diagnosed as unresectable. The total duration of the study will be 30 months. All patients will start administration of lenvatinib within 1 week of enrollment and receive the study drug 24mg orally once daily at almost the same time. 1 cycle consists of 4 weeks. Treatment term starts on the day 1st of drug administration of cycle 1 and administration will be continued until patients meet withdrawal criteria. Safety and efficacy assesment will be conducted on a regular basis during the trial. Tumor evaluation will be conducted at 4weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks and at every 8 weeks after the 16th week since initial administration. When study drug administration terminated,tests of the drug termination will be conducted within 7 days of withdrawal and final observation will be conducted at 30 days after the last dose. Survival survey will be conducted at follow-up term. After the termination of the study drug, survival follow up survey will be conducted every 12 weeks unless patients withdraw enrollment of this study.

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Conditions studied

  • Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

Keywords

  • anaplastic thyroid cancer, lenvatinib
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In context

Thyroid Neoplasms

802 studies on the registry are indexed under Thyroid Neoplasms; 216 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 39 is below the median of 51 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Thyroid Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan is the lead sponsor of 55 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Histologically confirmed as anaplastic thyroid cancer
  2. Unresectable disease
  3. Have measurable lesion defined by the RECIST version 1.1
  4. Have adequate organ function and meet following laboratory value:

    1. Bone marrow function test within 14 days prior to enrollment:

      neutrophil count>=1.5 x 103/microL blood platelet count>=10.0 x 104/microL hemoglobin amount>=9.0 g/dL

    2. Liver function test within 14 days prior to enrollment:

      AST,ALT\<=3.0 x ULN(without liver metastatic) AST,ALT\<=5.0 x ULN(with liver metastatic) bilirubin\<=2.0 mg/dL

    3. Kidney function test within 14 days prior to enrollment:

      GFR estimation>=50 ml/min/1.73 m2 GFR estimation calculated by following formula. Male:194 x(serum creatinine concentration)-1.094 x(Age)-0.287 Female:Male GFR estimation x 0.739

    4. Cardiac function test within 28 days prior to enrollment: 12-lead electrocardiogram: no clinically important abnormality as shown below: heart disease, severe arrhythmia etc.
  5. Regardless of usage of antihypertensive drug, systolic blood pressure \<=140 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure \<=90 mm Hg (If already taking antihypertensive drug, must have capacity of further antihypertensive therapy.)
  6. ECOG performance status 0-2
  7. Ability to swallow oral medications
  8. Life expectancy greater than 8 weeks
  9. Have signed written informed consent to participate in this study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Have complications or medical history of

    1. Complication of brain metastasis (Exclude if cured and in clinically stable condition for more than 1 month prior to screening.)
    2. Treatment required complication of systemic infectious disease
    3. Complication of pulmonary fibrosis or interstitial pneumonitis
    4. Medical history of clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 6 months of initial dose as: NYHA class above 2 leveled congestive heart failure, unstable angina, cardiac infarction or cardiac arrhythmia with paroxysmal or required treatment e) Uncontrollable complication of diabetes mellitus f) hemoptysis within 3 weeks of enrollment (blood volume of more than half of teaspoon) g) Medical history of hemorrhagic or thrombotic disease within 6 months of enrollment h) If proteinuria values above 2+ by urinary protein qualitative test, conduct 24-hour urine collection and the urine protein determined as 1g/24 hours or more. (can substitute to the ratio of proteinuria in morning urine/creatinine) i) Malabsorption at gastrointestinal tract and any of the complication diseases that investigator considers that will be affected to lenvatinib absorption j) Recent major surgery within 2 weeks (if needle biopsy within 1 week) of enrollment k) Drainage required celomic fluid stagnation
  2. Have history of lenvatinib administration
  3. Confirmed tumor invasion to the carotid arteries
  4. Have history of high dose external radiation therapy to cervical region, and irradiated tumor location close to the carotid arteries.
  5. Have any unresolved toxicity greater than 1 by CTCAE v4.0.
  6. Have active double cancer
  7. Female patients who are pregnant, lactating, breast feeding or have childbearing potential
  8. Psychiatric disorder and regarded by the investigator as inadequate for this study enrollment
  9. Confirmed as no resistance to any component of this drug
  10. Currently receiving other interventional clinical study treatment
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment Arm

    Drug: Lenvatinib

Interventions

  • DrugLenvatinib

    All patients will receive lenvatinib 24 mg orally once daily at almost the same time. The treatment will be started within 1 week after enrollment. 1 cycle consists of 4 weeks. The administration will be continued until patients meet withdrawal criteria. If any toxicity manifested that cannot be ruled out causal association with the study drug, drug withdrawal or dosage reduction will be conducted in accordance with drug withdrawal/dosage reduction criteria.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    OS is defined as time frame from date of initial dose until date of death from any cause. Or until the last confirmed survival date, study cut-off date which ever comes first.

    Time frame: up to 30 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    PFS is defined as time frame from date of initial dose until the date of first confirmed disease progression, until date of death from any cause or the last tumor evaluating date whichever comes first.

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  2. Best Overall Response (BOR)

    BOR is defined as the best total efficacy record during the date of initial dose to the date of study completion, by which evaluated with following index. Complete Response (CR), Partial Response (PR), Stable Disease (SD is defined as ≧3 weeks),Pharmacodynamics/Progressive Disease (PD) or Not Evaluable (NE).

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  3. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined as the ratio of patients who are evaluated as CR or PR in Best Overall Response (BOR).

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  4. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    DCR is defined as the ratio of patients who are evaluated as CR, PR or SD in Best Overall Response (BOR).

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  5. Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR)

    CBR is defined as the ratio of patients who are evaluated as CR, PR or durable SD (dSD is defined as ≧11 weeks SD) in Best Overall Response (BOR).

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  6. Safety assessment on the incidence ratio of adverse events

    Safety assessment will be assessed by the ratio of adverse event

    Time frame: up to 30 months

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Study locations

23 sites
  • Nagoya University Hospital
    Nagoya-city, Aichi-prefecture 466-8560, Japan
  • Fujita Health University Hospital
    Toyoake-city, Aichi-prefecture 470-1192, Japan
  • IUHW Ichikawa Hospital
    Ichikawa-city, Chiba-prefecture 272-0827, Japan
  • National Cancer Center Hospital East
    Kashiwa-city, Chiba-prefecture 277-8577, Japan
  • Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital
    Narita-city, Chiba-prefecture 286-8523, Japan
  • Kuma Hospital
    Kobe-city, Hyogo-prefecture 650-0011, Japan
  • Kobe Univbersity Hospital
    Kobe-city, Hyogo-prefecture 650-0017, Japan
  • University of Tsukuba Hospital
    Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki-prefecture 305-8576, Japan
  • Iwate Medical University Hospital
    Morioka-city, Iwate-prefecture 020-8505, Japan
  • Kitasato University Hospital
    Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa-prefecture 252-0375, Japan
  • Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital
    Yokohama-city, Kanagawa-prefecture 224-8503, Japan
  • Kanagawa Cancer Center
    Yokohama-city, Kanagawa-prefecture 241-8515, Japan
  • Miyaghi Cancer Center
    Natori-city, Miyagi-prefecture 981-1293, Japan
  • Tohoku University Hospital
    Sendai-city, Miyagi-prefecture 980-8574, Japan
  • Shinsyu University School of Medicine Department of Surgery
    Matsumoto-city, Nagano-prefecture 390-8621, Japan
  • Nara Hospital Kinki University Faculty of Medicine
    Ikoma-city, Nara-prefecture 630-0293, Japan
  • Nara Medical University
    Kashihara-city, Nara-prefecture 634-8522, Japan
  • Osaka Police Hospital
    Osaka-city, Osaka-prefecture 543-0035, Japan
  • Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine
    Osaka-city, Osaka-prefecture 545-8585, Japan
  • Nippon Medical School Hospital
    Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo-metropolis 113-8603, Japan
  • The Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR
    Koto-ku, Tokyo-metropolis 135-8550, Japan
  • Ito Hospital
    Shibuya-ku, Tokyo-metropolis 150-8308, Japan
  • Tokyo Medical University Hospital
    Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo-metropolis 160-0023, Japan
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 17, 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
NCT02726503
Lead sponsor
Translational Research Center for Medical Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 1, 2016
Start date
Apr 4, 2016
Primary completion
Feb 25, 2020
Completion
Mar 20, 2020
Last update
Jun 17, 2020

Study contacts

Iwao Sugitani, M.D., Ph.D
study director · Graduate School of Medicine Nippon Medical School
Makoto Tahara, M.D., Ph.D
study director · National Cancer Center Hospital East

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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