A Phase 2 interventional study of Abemaciclib in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, Esophagus SCC and Cholangiocarcinoma, sponsored by Jules Bordet Institute. Completed at 11 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-03-15.
Sponsored by Jules Bordet Institute · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
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Among 16 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in Belgium — 4 open to participants now, 7 under way, 3 of them phase 3. Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus · Belgium.
Among the 16 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in Belgium, this one is the 11th largest by enrollment of the 14 interventional ones that give a count, is the only one that started in 2018, is one of 5 in phase 2, and was the 6th registered.
354 studies on the registry are indexed under Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus; 81 are open to participants now.
Browse Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus studies →4 of the 16 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in Belgium are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:
AstraZeneca · Sites in Belgium, United States, Australia and 21 more countries
Ages 18+
University Hospital, Antwerp · Sites in Belgium, Denmark, France and 3 more countries
Ages 18+
Boehringer Ingelheim · Sites in Belgium, United States, China and 7 more countries
Ages 18+
Daiichi Sankyo · Sites in Belgium, United States, Argentina and 15 more countries
Ages 18+
A study can be open while its sites in Belgium have not opened yet or have stopped. Only those recruiting at a site in Belgium →
Of the 70 Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus studies recruiting now, 60 (86%) set no upper age limit and 2 (3%) stop at 75 or younger; 4 take children under 18; 3 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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16 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 3 · Phase 2 8 · Phase 3 5
First in 2002; this study’s year is marked. 1 started in 2018.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's enrollment of 85 is above the median of 51 across 277 interventional studies indexed under Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus.
Median enrollment 334 across the 14 interventional studies, 585 across the 2 observational. Of the 7 that completed or were terminated, 1 (14%) have results posted.
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11 of 16 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
Jules Bordet Institute is the lead sponsor of 106 studies on the registry; 27 are open to participants now.
Jules Bordet Institute has 2 studies filed under Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
None of the studies under way reaches primary completion within a year.
Among the 16 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in Belgium, from their registry updates:
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Open-label, phase II, basket trial. This trial is a screening program for abemaciclib efficacy in multiple platinum-resistant tumour types by using metabolic imaging (PERCIST) and RECIST v1.1 criteria.
Based on the rate of FDG-avidity and the absence of deactivation of the Rb gene function in more than 95% of cases, we propose to define 5 tumour types of interest in a preliminary stage:
In various solid tumour types FDG-PET/CT has been shown to identify treatment-refractory diseases with a high negative predictive value (NPV) through a whole-body quantitative assessment of treatment-induced changes in tumour glucose uptake soon after treatment initiation, before any structural changes are observed. Progress in the standardisation of FDG-PET/CT imaging and response analysis now allow its use in multicentric trials opening the possibilities for trials where treatment allocation will be based on early metabolic response. MiMe has been built on the assumption that a medication which does not induce any metabolic changes in a given clinical setting is unlikely to induce a significant benefit and does consequently not deserve further investigation as a single agent in this setting.
MiMe, by assessing metabolic response early during the treatment course, will hopefully provide useful information about the drug activity in various cancer types, and about mechanisms of resistance through a potential ambitious translational research program with serial collection of circulating-tumour DNA (ct-DNA).
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Adequate bone marrow function as defined below:
Adequate liver function as defined below:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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 tumor 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 tumor visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
The standard rules for measuring tumors on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumor 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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 authorized 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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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.
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Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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 tumor 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 tumor visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumors on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumor 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CTCAE grade
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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 authorized 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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
This study contains 2 stages; during the 1st stage, a maximum of 17 patients will be enrolled in each tumour type cohort. After 13 evaluable patients have been enrolled, an interim analysis will be performed. If 3 or more patients are seen to have experienced a treatment success, then the cohort will pass into the 2nd stage in which a maximum of 20 more patients are enrolled. If 2 or less patients are seen to have experienced a treatment success, then that cohort will be closed and will not proceed into the 2nd stage. Subjects will receive 200 mg of abemaciclib orally, twice a day, during cycles of 28 days each. The subject will undergo: A baseline FDG-PET/CT and a baseline CT scan and A blinded early FDG-PET/CT at D14 +/- 2 days of study treatment. A treatment success is defined as a patient who has metabolic response according to PERCIST with a response cut off set at 15% at the early FDG-PET/CT and a morphological disease control after 2 cycles measured by RECIST v1.1.
Drug: Abemaciclib
Subjects will receive 200 mg of abemaciclib orally, two times a day, during cycles of 28 days each. An early FDG-PET/CT will be performed at cycle 1 day 14 to search for any new lesions.
Also known as: FDG-PET/CT
Evaluate the anti-tumour activity of abemaciclib in the five tumour types studied in this trial using FDG-PET/CT during the first cycle of therapy (early FDG- PET/CT).
Therapy success rate defined as: PERCIST 15%-assessed Metabolic Response at early FDG-PET/CT (D12-D16)
Time frame: 2 months
Evaluate the anti-tumour activity of abemaciclib in the five tumour types studied in this trial using RECISTv1.1 after 2 cycles of therapy as a screening tool.
Therapy success rate defined as: RECISTv1.1-assessed Disease Control (DC) after 2 treatment cycles (CR or PR or SD)
Time frame: 2 Months
Evaluate Progression-free survival (PFS define as the time from treatment start until disease progression or death) at 24 weeks from treatment start
RECIST v1.1-based radiological response assessment performed at 24 weeks from the treatment start to determine the PFS
Time frame: 6 months
Evaluate Overall Survival (OS defined as the time from treatment start until death) at 24 weeks from treatment start
RECIST v1.1-based radiological response assessment performed at 24 weeks from the treatment start to determine the OS.
Time frame: 6 months
To evaluate median progression-free survival (PFS)
Progression Free Survival
Time frame: 42 months
Evaluate median overall survival (OS)
Overall Survival
Time frame: 42 months
To evaluate toxicity profile
Toxicity profile according to CTCAE version 4.03
Time frame: 6 months
Evaluate the correlation of early metabolic response using FDG-PET/CT with morphological response to treatment assessed by RECIST
RECIST v1.1-based radiological response assessment performed at 24 weeks from the treatment start to determine the PFS and OS
Time frame: 6 months
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Dec 2018 to primary completion in Nov 2021, 34 months.
Of 51 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus, half reached primary completion within 61 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 41 and three quarters within 82. This study's 34 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 60 studies reached it within 55 months; a quarter within 41 and three quarters within 80.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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Studies of the drug tested here: Abemaciclib