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Status unknownNCT03400865Updated Oct 16, 2018

Cabergoline Combined Hydroxychloroquine/Chloroquine to Treat Resistant Prolactinomas

An interventional study of HCQ/CQ and CAB combined treatment in Resistance, Disease and Prolactinoma, sponsored by Zhebao Wu. Status unknown at 9 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-10-16.

Sponsored by Zhebao Wu · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jan 2018), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to preliminarily evaluate the safety and efficacy of cabergoline combined hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine(HCQ/CQ) therapy for cabergoline-Resistant Prolactinomas

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The dopamine agonist cabergoline (CAB) has been used widely in the treatment of prolactinomas, but its clinical use is hampered by intolerance and/or resistant in some patients with prolactinoma. Chloroquine (CQ) is an old drug widely used to treat malaria. Recent studies, including our own (J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2017; Autophagy, 2017; Oncotarget, 2015), have revealed that CAB and CQ are involved in induction of autophagy and activation of autophagic cell death. Furthermore, CQ enhanced suppression of cell proliferation by CAB. We established a low-CAB-dose condition in which CAB was able to induce autophagy but failed to suppress cell growth. Addition of CQ to low-dose CAB blocked normal autophagic cycles and induced apoptosis, evidenced by the further accumulation of p62/caspase-8/LC3-II. The data suggest that combined use of CAB and CQ may increase clinical effectiveness in treatment of intolerance and/or resistant prolactinomas.

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Conditions studied

  • Resistance, Disease
  • Prolactinoma

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Keywords

  • cabergoline
  • prolactinomas
  • resistant
  • hydroxychloroquine
  • chloroquine
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In context

Prolactinoma

28 studies on the registry are indexed under Prolactinoma; 5 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 55 across 14 interventional studies indexed under Prolactinoma.

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Lead sponsor

Zhebao Wu 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 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Aged between 18 and 70 years old, either sex;
  2. performance status ≥ 70;
  3. Patients who were suffered drug-resistant,which has taken cabergoline ≥2.0mg/week no less than 3 months, referring to failure to normalize PRL levels and failure to decrease macroprolactinoma size by >or=50%;
  4. The patient has signed the .

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients concomitantly taking the psychotropic drugs or other drugs causing elevated PRL ;
  2. Patients with parkinson disease and is taking dopaminergic agents;
  3. Patients with prolactinoma who received Gamma knife treatment;
  4. Patients who use any dopamine receptor agonists other than cabergoline;
  5. pregnant or lactating women, or women preparing pregnant;
  6. Patients with poor compliance, who cannot implement the program strictly.
  7. History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to HCQ.
  8. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, as HCQ may cause hemolytic anemia in patients with G6PD deficiency.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    HCQ/CQ and CAB combined treatment

    Subjects are treated with hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets 5mg/kg Bid and cabergoline tablets 2mg/week for 3 months.

    Drug: HCQ/CQ and CAB combined treatment

Interventions

  • DrugHCQ/CQ and CAB combined treatment

    Subjects are treated with hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets 5mg/kg Bid and cabergoline tablets 2mg/week for 3 months.After therapy of 3 months the medication will be stopped if does not reduce prl level more than 20% or failure to decrease prolactinoma size.

    Also known as: HCCT

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from baseline on prolactin(PRL) level

    Record the result of prolactin on every 3 month follow-up visit

    Time frame: Up to 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from baseline on tumor volume measured by enhanced pituitary Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)

    Record the tumor volume from enhanced pituitary MRI on every 3 month follow-up visits

    Time frame: Up to 6 months

  2. Change from baseline of visual acuity

    Record the Visual acuity on every 3 month follow-up visit

    Time frame: Up to 6 months

  3. Change from baseline on 5 point visual field scale

    Record the Visual field scale on every 3 month follow-up visit, 0 = normal, no vision loss; 1 = one quadrant vision loss; 2 = two quadrants of vision loss; 3 = three quadrants of vision loss; 4 = four quadrants of vision loss but retain a central tubular vision; 5 = blind

    Time frame: Up to 6 months

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Study locations

9 sites
  • Beijing Tiantan Hospital
    Beijing, Beijing, China
  • Huashan Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Ruijin Hosipital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Chinese PLA General Hospital
    Beijing, China
  • Peking Union Medical College Hospital
    Beijing, China
  • Xinqiao Hospital of Chongqing
    Chongqing, China
  • First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical
    Fujian, China
  • First Hospital of China Medical University
    Shenyang, China
  • First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical Univeristy
    Wenzhou, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Leng ZG, Lin SJ, Wu ZR, Guo YH, Cai L, Shang HB, Tang H, Xue YJ, Lou MQ, Zhao W, Le WD, Zhao WG, Zhang X, Wu ZB. Activation of DRD5 (dopamine receptor D5) inhibits tumor growth by autophagic cell death. Autophagy. 2017 Aug 3;13(8):1404-1419. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2017.1328347. Epub 2017 Jun 14. PubMed 28613975 ↗
  • Lin SJ, Leng ZG, Guo YH, Cai L, Cai Y, Li N, Shang HB, Le WD, Zhao WG, Wu ZB. Suppression of mTOR pathway and induction of autophagy-dependent cell death by cabergoline. Oncotarget. 2015 Nov 17;6(36):39329-41. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.5744. PubMed 26513171 ↗
  • Lin SJ, Wu ZR, Cao L, Zhang Y, Leng ZG, Guo YH, Shang HB, Zhao WG, Zhang X, Wu ZB. Pituitary Tumor Suppression by Combination of Cabergoline and Chloroquine. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2017 Oct 1;102(10):3692-3703. doi: 10.1210/jc.2017-00627. PubMed 28973192 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — The individual patient Data would not be shared to the third facility, but the sponsor hasn't decided whether to share the individual patient date to the other related studies hold by himself in the future.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Oct 2018; primary completion for Dec 2020, 26 months later.

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Registered
Jan 8, 2018
First posted
Jan 17, 2018
StartEst.
Oct 25, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Dec 30, 2020
CompletionEst.
Dec 30, 2020
Last update
Oct 16, 2018
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.
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No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 16, 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
NCT03400865
Lead sponsor
Zhebao Wu
Collaborators
Xinqiao Hospital of Chongqing, First Hospital of China Medical University, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Huashan Hospital, Chinese PLA General Hospital
Responsible party
Zhebao Wu (Chief Physician, Ruijin Hospital) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Jan 17, 2018
Start date
Oct 25, 2018 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 30, 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 16, 2018

Study contacts

Shaojian Lin, MD
Contact
shaojianlin88@126.com
0086-15801782758
Zhebao Wu, Medical PhD
Contact
zhebaowu@aliyun.com
0086-021-64370045
Zhebao Wu, Medical
study chair · Ruijin Hospital

Oversight

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