A Phase 2 interventional study of Decitabine and Carboplatin in Recurrent, Platinum-resistant Ovarian Cancer, sponsored by Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano. Status unknown at 1 site in Italy. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-09-05.
Sponsored by Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
Multicenter Phase II study on Decitabine-Carboplatin combination in platinum resistant ovarian cancer patients.
Patients will receive study treatment until disease progression is documented, extraordinary medical circumstances occur, intolerable toxicities occur, or the patient withdraws consent.
This is an open-label, prospective, multicenter, randomized Phase II, clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of Decitabine-Carboplatin combination in recurrent, platinum resistant ovarian cancer patients in comparison to physician' choice chemotherapy:
Arm A: Carboplatin AUC (Area Under Curve) 5 d 8 q 28 Plus Decitabine 10 mg/mq iv d1-5 q 28
Arm B: Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin 40 mg/mq q 28 or Gemcitabine 1000 mg/mq dd 1, 8, 15 q 28 or Weekly Paclitaxel 80 mg/mq gg 1, 8, 15 q 28
Patients will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to treatment arms.
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano is the lead sponsor of 172 studies on the registry; 50 are open to participants now.
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Adequate organ functions:
Hepatic: (aspartate transaminase ) and ALT (alanine transaminase) \<3 times (ULN)*; Alkaline phosphatase \<3 times ULN*; \<1.5 times ULN
*: \<5 times ULN if liver are present
Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
The standard rules for measuring tumours 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 tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
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.
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.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
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.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumours 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 tumour 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Carboplatin AUC 5 d 8 q 28 plus Decitabine 10 mg/mq iv d1-5 q 28
Drug: Decitabine · Drug: Carboplatin
Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin 40 mg/mq q 28 or Gemcitabine 1000 mg/mq dd 1, 8, 15 q 28 or Weekly Paclitaxel 80 mg/ m2 dd 1, 8, 15 q 28
Drug: Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin · Drug: Gemcitabine · Drug: Paclitaxel
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitor
Chemotherapy medication
Chemotherapy medication
Chemotherapy medication
Chemotherapy medication
Progression free survival (PFS)
The primary objective is to compare Decitabine plus Carboplatin combination versus physician' choice chemotherapy in terms of progression free survival
Time frame: from randomization to the date of radiological/clinical progression of disease or death, assessed up to 3 years
Overall survival (OS)
The secondary objective is to compare Decitabine plus Carboplatin combination versus physician' choice chemotherapy in terms of overall survival
Time frame: from randomization to the date of death, assessed up to 3 years
Radiological response rate (in patients with measurable disease)
Radiological response rate
Time frame: 3 years
Duration of response
Duration of response
Time frame: 3 years
Cancer-Antigen 125 (CA-125) response rate per GCIG (Gynaecologic Cancer Intergroup) and change in CA-125
Serum level of CA125 is used to monitor response to chemotherapy, relapse, and disease progression in ovarian cancer patients.
Time frame: 3 years
Toxicity profile
Incidence of adverse events
Time frame: 3 years
Patient Reported Outcome: Physical well-being
will be evaluated using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-O) and FACT-O Ovarian Cancer-specific Subscale (OCS) questionnaire. The total scores of both scales will be calculated, the scores of each question at each time point and their difference from baseline will be summarized for each treatment group. At a given visit, the change and/or percent change from baseline will be compared between the randomized treatment groups using an ANCOVA test using the treatment as a categorical factor and baseline measurement for the parameter as a continuous covariate. The time to an event in PRO (Patient Reported Outcome) of worsening of disease symptoms will be defined as the time from randomization to a 4-point reduction in the FACT-O questionnaire. Patients without a 4-point reduction will be censored on the date of their last PRO evaluation. Patients that do not have both a baseline measurement and at least one post-baseline measurement will not be included.
Time frame: 3 years
Patient Reported Outcome: Social/family well-being
will be evaluated using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-O) and FACT-O ovarian cancer-specific subscale (OCS) questionnaire. The total scores of both scales will be calculated, the scores of each question at each time point and their difference from baseline will be summarized for each treatment group. At a given visit, the change and/or percent change from baseline will be compared between the randomized treatment groups using an ANCOVA test using the treatment as a categorical factor and baseline measurement for the parameter as a continuous covariate. The time to an event in PRO of worsening of disease symptoms will be defined as the time from randomization to a 4-point reduction in the FACT-O questionnaire. Patients without a 4-point reduction will be censored on the date of their last PRO evaluation. Patients that do not have both a baseline measurement and at least one post-baseline measurement will not be included.
Time frame: 3 years
Patient Reported Outcome: Functional well being
will be evaluated using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-O) and FACT-O ovarian cancer-specific subscale (OCS) questionnaire. The total scores of both scales will be calculated, the scores of each question at each time point and their difference from baseline will be summarized for each treatment group. At a given visit, the change and/or percent change from baseline will be compared between the randomized treatment groups using an ANCOVA test using the treatment as a categorical factor and baseline measurement for the parameter as a continuous covariate. The time to an event in PRO of worsening of disease symptoms will be defined as the time from randomization to a 4-point reduction in the FACT-O questionnaire. Patients without a 4-point reduction will be censored on the date of their last PRO evaluation. Patients that do not have both a baseline measurement and at least one post-baseline measurement will not be included.
Time frame: 3 years
Patient Reported Outcome: Emotional well being
will be evaluated using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-O) and FACT-O ovarian cancer-specific subscale (OCS) questionnaire. The total scores of both scales will be calculated, the scores of each question at each time point and their difference from baseline will be summarized for each treatment group. At a given visit, the change and/or percent change from baseline will be compared between the randomized treatment groups using an ANCOVA test using the treatment as a categorical factor and baseline measurement for the parameter as a continuous covariate. The time to an event in PRO of worsening of disease symptoms will be defined as the time from randomization to a 4-point reduction in the FACT-O questionnaire. Patients without a 4-point reduction will be censored on the date of their last PRO evaluation. Patients that do not have both a baseline measurement and at least one post-baseline measurement will not be included.
Time frame: 3 years
Plan to share: No
Started Jul 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2021, 41 months after the start.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Decitabine · Carboplatin
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