A Phase 2 interventional study of Trabectedin in Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Bone Tumors and Small Round-cell Sarcomas, sponsored by Grupo Espanol de Investigacion en Sarcomas. Recruiting at 7 sites in Spain. Open to participants aged 16 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-03-27.
Sponsored by Grupo Espanol de Investigacion en Sarcomas · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
Phase II, multicohort, single arm, open-label, multicenter, international clinical trial with three cohorts (cohort A: Soft tissue sarcoma, cohort B: Bone tumors (osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma and cohort C: Small round-cell sarcomas (Ewing's sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, desmoplastic small round-cell tumors and other small round cell sarcomas)) with 7 sites in Spain.
Main objective: To evaluate the overall response rate (ORR) in the irradiated nodules according to RECIST v1.1 criteria.
Treatment
Medication
Trabectedin at 1.5 mg/m2 24-h IV CI along with radiation therapy (30 Gy, 3 Gy/day for 10 days for non-extremity location and 45 Gy, 1.8 Gy/day for 25 days for extremity location of target lesion(s)), starting within 1 hour after the first trabectedin infusion withdrawal (day 2)) will be given every 3 weeks up to progression or intolerance.
Premedication
4 mg oral dexamethasone 24h and 12h before trabectedin administration, 20 mg IV dexamethasone 30 minutes before treatment. Ondansetron or analogue will also be given prior to trabectedin.
Cohort A: Soft tissue sarcomas (2nd or further line): A proportion of 10% of ORR will be considered as not promising, whereas an ORR of 35% will be considered promising in this population. With a type I error α of 0.05 and a power of 0.90, 27 patients were estimated in this cohort. With Simon's two-stage optimal design,36 at least 2 responses have to be obtained over the 11 first patients. Then, additional 16 eligible patients will be accrued up to 27 patients. If at least 6 patients show response, further investigation of this scheme is warranted.
Cohort B: Bone tumors (osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma) (2nd or further line): A proportion of 3% of ORR will be considered as not promising, whereas an ORR of 20% will be considered promising in this population. With a type I error α of 0.05 and a power of 0.90, 29 patients were estimated in this cohort. With Simon's two-stage optimal design,36 at least 1 response has to be obtained over the 12 first patients. Then, additional 17 eligible patients will be accrued up to 29 patients. If at least 3 patients show response, further investigation of this scheme is warranted.
Cohort C: Small round-cell sarcomas (Ewing's sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, desmoplastic small round-cell tumors and other small round-cell sarcomas) (3rd or further line): A proportion of 15% of ORR will be considered as not promising, whereas an ORR of 40% will be considered promising in this population. With a type I error α of 0.05 and a power of 0.90, 29 patients were estimated in this cohort. With Simon's two-stage optimal design,36 at least 3 response has to be obtained over the 13 first patients. Then, additional 16 eligible patients will be accrued up to 29 patients. If at least 8 patients show response, further investigation of this scheme is warranted.
Taking into account that 10% of enrolled patients might not be evaluable (losses), an extra amount of 3 patients may be recruited per cohort.
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This study's planned enrollment of 85 is above the median of 40 across 1,255 interventional studies indexed under Sarcoma.
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The following sarcoma types are eligible:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
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 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.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Premedication 4 mg oral dexamethasone 24h and 12h before trabectedin administration, 20 mg IV dexamethasone 30 minutes before treatment. Ondansetron or analogue will also be given prior to trabectedin. Medication Trabectedin at 1.5 mg/m2 24-h IV CI along with radiation therapy (30 Gy, 3 Gy/day for 10 days for non-extremity location and 45 Gy, 1.8 Gy/day for 25 days for extremity location of target lesion(s)), starting within 1 hour after the first trabectedin infusion withdrawal (day 2)) will be given every 3 weeks up to progression or intolerance.
Drug: Trabectedin
ET-743, Yondelis (vials of 1 mg). Route of administration: intravenous infusion
Also known as: Yondelis
Overall response rate (ORR) in the irradiated nodules
ORR is defined as the number of subjects with a best overall response (BOR) of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) only in the irradiated nodules divided by the number of response evaluable subjects (according to RECIST v1.1 criteria and based on central radiology review). This is considered a good surrogate for palliative relief.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Overall response rate (ORR) considering all the lesions
ORR is defined as the number of subjects with a best overall response (BOR) of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) considering all the lesions divided by the number of response evaluable subjects (according to RECIST v1.1 criteria and based on central radiology review).
Time frame: 6 weeks
Progression-free survival rate (PFSR) at 6 months considering all the lesions
Efficacy measured by the PFSR at 6 months according to RECIST v1.1 criteria based on central radiology review. PFSR at 6 months is defined as the percentage of patients who did not experience progression (considering all the lesions) or death due to any cause since the date of enrollment until month 6 after date of enrollment.
Time frame: 6 months
Median progression-free survival (mPFS)
Efficacy measured by the mPFS according to RECIST v1.1 criteria based on central radiology review. mPFS is defined as the median of time in months between the date of enrollment and the date of progression (considering all the lesions) or death due to any cause.
Time frame: 6 months
Time to progression (TTP) of irradiated nodules
TTP is defined as the time in months between the date of enrollment and the date of progression of irradiated nodules (not including deaths) (according to RECIST v1.1 criteria and based on central radiology review).
Time frame: 6 weeks
Overall survival (OS)
OS is defined as the time in months between the date of enrollment and the date of death due to any cause. OS will be censored on the last date a subject was known to be alive.
Time frame: 6 months
Variations in pain using the Brief Pain Inventory - Short Form (BPI-SF)
Variations from baseline will be assessed on day 1 of every cycle (before trabectedin administration) until cycle 10 and then on day 1 every other cycle (cycle 12 day 1, cycle 14 day 1...).
Time frame: 3 weeks
Variations in quality of life using the QLQ-C30 EORTC v3.0 questionnaire.
Variations in quality of life will be assessed at baseline (within 7 days with respect to enrollment), on day 1 of every cycle (before trabectedin administration) until cycle 10 and then on day 1 every other cycle (cycle 12 day 1, cycle 14 day 1...).
Time frame: 3 weeks
Safety profile measured by adverse event type, incidence, severity, time of appearance, and related causes
Toxicity will be assessed through physical explorations and laboratory tests. Toxicity will be graded and tabulated by using CTCAE v5.0.
Time frame: 3 years
Plan to share: No
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