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WithdrawnNCT03275558Updated Jul 19, 2018

Clinical Trial of the Use of the Nasal Spray of Patients With Recurrence of Glioblastoma

A Phase 1 interventional study of Axitinib 1 MG and Sunitinib 5 MG in Recurrent Glioblastoma, Gliosarcoma and Anaplastic Gliomas, sponsored by Center Trials & Treatment. Withdrawn at 2 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-07-19.

Sponsored by Center Trials & Treatment · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
Study halted prior to enrollment of first participant. (It has been determined on 2018 May 15 that the NCT03275558 study will be stopped by sponsor decision)
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a study to determine the efficacy, safety and clinical benefit (how well the drugs works), of the pharmaceutical compositions in Nasal Spray NST-4G for the treatment of brain tumors( Recurrent Glioblastoma, Gliosarcoma,Anaplastic Gliomas, Previously Treated).

All drugs target the inhibition of the growth factors and neo-angiogenesis as one the main reasons for the growth of the tumor.

The purpose of the Nasal Spray NST-4G study is to determine the safety and tolerability in order to establish the best dose level to be used in future studies.

Read the detailed description

This is an open-label study, Phase 1 study evaluating the preliminary safety, efficacy, tolerability and clinical benefit of Nasal Spray NST-4G in patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma, Gliosarcoma,Anaplastic Gliomas.

Acceptable subjects included in the study will receive Nasal Spray NST-4G, administered twice daily for 7 weeks intranasally.

Every 8th day, a blood function (hematopoiesis) is examined . Patients may continue to receive subsequent nasal spray cycles if the subject is not intolerant of the test product, does not withdraw consent or the individual no longer receives clinical benefit (the factors taken for consideration will be the progression of the disease, expressed in increasing neuropathy, hemiparesis, pain intensification ,DLT events, Clinical signs of deteriorating quality of life (QOL).

The evaluation of the tumor size will be repeated using the MRI method with a contrast agent after each 7-week nasal spray cycle.

The use of nasal spray is a non-invasive method of treatment that does not require specialized conditions for therapy

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Conditions studied

  • Recurrent Glioblastoma
  • Gliosarcoma
  • Anaplastic Gliomas

Keywords

  • Nasal Spray
  • Gliosarcoma
  • Glioblastoma
  • Gliomas
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In context

Glioblastoma

2,132 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioblastoma; 464 are open to participants now.

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Lead sponsor

Center Trials & Treatment is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Has been treated previously with bevacizumab and (or) temozolomide.
  2. Be willing and able to provide written /assent for the trial.
  3. Be >/= 18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.
  4. Have confirmed World Health Organization Grade IV malignant glioma (glioblastoma or gliosarcoma). Participants will be eligible if the original histology was low-grade glioma and a subsequent histological diagnosis of glioblastoma or variants is made.
  5. Patients must be at first or second relapse and clinically require reoperation for tumor progression within 4 to 6 weeks. Note: Relapse is defined as progression following initial therapy (i.e., radiation, chemotherapy, or radiation+ chemotherapy). If the participant had a surgical resection for disease and no antitumor therapy instituted for up to 12 weeks, this is considered one relapse. For participants who had prior therapy for a low grade glioma, the surgical diagnosis of a high grade glioma will be considered first relapse.
  6. Have consisting of a minimal volume of 1 cm3.
  7. Have provided tissue from an sample of a tumor lesion.
  8. Have a performance status of >/= 60 on the .
  9. Stable dose of for 5 days, no more than 2 mg dexamethasone (or equivalent) total per day
  10. Demonstrate adequate organ function as defined in Table 1, all screening labs should be performed within 14 days prior to registration. 1) Hematological : (ANC) >/=1,500 /mcL; >/=100,000 / mcL; >/= 9 g/dL or >/= 5.6 mmol/L. 2) Renal: Serum creatinine \</= 1.5 X (ULN) OR Measured or calculated ( can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) >/= 60 mL/min for subject with creatinine levels > 1.5 X institutional ULN.
  11. Hepatic: Serum total \</= 1.5 X ULN OR Direct bilirubin \</= ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels > 1.5 ULN; (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) \</= 2.5 X ULN, Coagulation: (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) \</= 1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants; Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) \</= 1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants.
  12. Female subject of should have a negative serum pregnancy test.
  13. Female subjects of childbearing potential should be willing to use 2 methods of or be surgically sterile, or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through 90 days after the last dose of study medication. Subjects of childbearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free from menses for > 1 year.
  14. Male subjects should agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 90 days after the last dose of study therapy.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Has tumor localized primarily to the brainstem or spinal cord.
  2. There are acute or chronic diseases of the maxillary and paranasal sinuses, sphenoid sinuses, the sinuses of the trellis, early or current traumatic injuries of these zones, fractures of the nasal septum, congenital malformations of the development of bone tissue of the latticed bone.
  3. Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an agent or using an investigational device 4 weeks since last dose of agent administration.
  4. Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic therapy > 2 mg of dexamethasone total per day or any other form of therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment.
  5. Has had a prior monoclonal antibody within 4 weeks prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., \</= Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
  6. Has had prior chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, or radiation therapy within 2 weeks prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., \</= Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to a previously administered agent. - Note: Subjects with alopecia, \</= Grade 2 neuropathy are an exception to this criterion and may qualify for the study.
  7. Has a known additional that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or in situ cervical cancer that has undergone potentially curative therapy.
  8. Has known carcinomatous meningitis, extracranial disease, or multifocal disease.
  9. Has an active disease requiring systemic treatment within the past 3 months or a documented history of clinically severe autoimmune disease, or a syndrome that requires systemic steroids or immunosuppressive agents. Subjects with vitiligo or resolved childhood asthma/atopy would be an exception to this rule. Subjects that require intermittent use of bronchodilators or local steroid injections would not be excluded from the study.
  10. Has evidence of interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis.
  11. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
  12. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
  13. Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
  14. Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the screening visit through 90 days after the last dose of trial treatment.
  15. Has a known history of (HIV) (HIV 1/2 antibodies).
  16. Has known history of (e.g., HBsAg reactive) or (e.g., HCV RNA [qualitative] is detected).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(25)

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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.

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.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

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.

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.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

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.

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).

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Axitinib

    A single dose of Axitinib - 1 mg in a liquid form in the composition (Axitinib+Sunitinib+Pazopanib) of the nasal spray.

    Drug: Axitinib 1 MG

  • Active comparator
    Sunitinib

    A single dose of Sunitinib- 5 mg in a liquid form in the composition (Axitinib+Sunitinib+Pazopanib) of the nasal spray.

    Drug: Sunitinib 5 MG

  • Active comparator
    Pazopanib

    A single dose of Pazopanib-5 mg in a liquid form in the composition (Axitinib+Sunitinib+Pazopanib) of the nasal spray.

    Drug: Pazopanib 5 MG

Interventions

  • Pharmaceutical composition of Axitinib 5MG +Sunitinib 5MG + Pazopanib 5MG in the liquid form of a nasal spray NST-4-G. Subjects take a nasal spray BID at a single dose in each nostril (approximately at the same time of day) for 7 weeks or unacceptable toxicity or other adverse events.

    Also known as: AG 013736, Inlyta

  • Pharmaceutical composition of Axitinib 5MG +Sunitinib 5MG + Pazopanib 5MG in the liquid form of a nasal spray NST-4-G.

    Also known as: SU11248, Sutent

  • Pharmaceutical composition of Axitinib 5MG +Sunitinib 5MG + Pazopanib 5MG in the liquid form of a nasal spray NST-4-G.

    Also known as: GW786034, Votrient

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The definition of survival without progression of disease

    The definition of survival without progression of disease is estimated as time of the disease-free period / absence of continued tumor growth (in weeks) by objective methods of control (MRI or CT)

    Time frame: From the date of commencement of participation in the study until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first /assessed up to 48 months/

Secondary outcomes

  1. The definition of overall survival

    The determine overall survival from the date of commencement of participation in the study until date of death from any cause.

    Time frame: From the date of commencement of participation in the study until date of death from any cause / assessed up to 60 months/

  2. The definition late toxicity to maximum tolerated dose (MTD)

    To determine late toxicity for the maximum tolerated dose is estimated a function of hematopoiesis of patients by blood sampling every 8th day The MTD is based upon dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) experienced during Cycle 1 of treatment. The MTD is the dose level at which 0/6 or 1/6 patients experience DLT with at least two patients experiencing DLT at the next higher dose level. Using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 3.0, DLTs are defined as: Grade 4 neutropenia lasting greater than 5 days; Grade 3 thrombocytopenia; the occurrence of non-hematologic Grade 3 or greater drug-related adverse events excluding Grade ≥ 3 elevation in alkaline phosphatase, Grade ≥ 3 nausea or vomiting unless occurring despite the use of standard anti-emetics or Grade 3 diarrhea unless occurring despite standard anti-diarrheal therapy; \> 14 day delay to re-treat due to failure to resolve drug-related toxicity to re-treatment criteria or pre-treatment baseline.

    Time frame: From the date of commencement of participation in the study until the onset of adverse event /assessed up to 48 months/

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Study locations

2 sites
  • The Hong Kong Cancer Institute
    Hong Kong, 518031, Hong Kong
  • National University Cancer Institute,
    Singapore, 119074, Singapore
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — IB, SAP. ICF E-mail: info@trials.clinic

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form

Time frame: Data will become available after September 30, 2017

Access criteria: On request

Data sharing details ↗ · trials.clinic

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 19, 2018, 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
NCT03275558
Lead sponsor
Center Trials & Treatment
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 7, 2017
Start date
Jul 17, 2018
Primary completion
Jul 17, 2018
Completion
Jul 17, 2018
Last update
Jul 19, 2018

Study contacts

Ivo Reznic, PhD
principal investigator · Center Trials & Treatment Inc.
Oliever R Kolb
study director · Center Trials & Treatment Inc.

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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