Aprepitant vs. Desloratadine in EGFR-TKIs Related Pruritus Treatment

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

— EGFR-TKIs  

Official title:

Aprepitant vs. Desloratadine in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Related Pruritus: A Prospective, Randomized Control, Double-blinded, Phase II Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02646020
• Other study ID #: TAPE001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: December 2015
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: May 2021
• Source: Sun Yat-sen University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Study hypothesis is that aprepitant is more effective than desloratadine in relieving pruritus caused by EGFR TKIs. Primary endpoint is the effective rate of pruritus, effective treatment defined as visual analogue scale (VAS) decrease ≥ 50% after treatment compared to baseline score. 130 NSCLC patients undertaken EGFR-TKI and suffer from moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score ≥ 4) will be enrolled in this study, and stratified (gender, VAS 4-6 or 7-10, and 2nd generation TKI or non 2nd generation) randomized (1:1) into aprepitant or desloratadine treatment. VAS investigation will be taken once a week to treatment end (4 weeks).

Description:

This is a prospective, randomized control, double-blinded, phase II clinical trial. Study hypothesis is that aprepitant is more effective than desloratadine in relieving pruritus caused by EGFR TKIs. Primary endpoint is the effective rate of pruritus, effective treatment defined as visual analogue scale (VAS) decrease ≥ 50% after treatment (1 week) compared to baseline score. The VAS inquiry will be taken once a week for 4 weeks. Quality of life investigation will be performed at baseline, 1 week and 4 weeks after treatment using SKINDEX-16 questionnaire. 130 NSCLC patients undertaken EGFR-TKI and suffer from moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score ≥ 4) will be enrolled in this study, and stratified (gender,and VAS 4-6 or 7-10, and 2nd generation TKI or non 2nd generation) randomized (1:1) into aprepitant or desloratadine treatment. Aprepitant arm will be administrated aprepitant 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5, along with placebo 5mg d1-d28; desloratadine arm will be administrated placebo 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5, along with desloratadine 5mg d1-d28. Tolerance evaluation will be taken according to National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Common Terminology Criteria (CTC) For Adverse Events (AE) V4.03.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 138
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Advanced or metastatic non small cell lung cancer

• Undertaken EGFR TKIs treatment (gefitinib, erlotinib, icotinib, afatinib, etc)

• 18 years old

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score 0-2

• Moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score = 4) first occur after EGFR TKIs treatment

• Life expectancy = 3 months

• Orally drug administration with no difficulty

• pregnancy test negative in 7 days for women of child-bearing age; willing to take contraception measures.

• Signed informed consent form (ICF)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Systemically treatment with Neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor inhibitors, antihistamines drugs, antibiotics, cortical hormone therapy, antiepileptic drugs, immunosuppressive agents or other drugs might affect treatment in 4 weeks; or locally used of these drug in 2 weeks.

• Existing skin lesions not EGFR TKIs related, such as skin infection, chronic dermatitis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), lymphoma or other diseases.

• Total bilirubin = 1.5 Upper Limit Of Normal (ULN)

• Serum creatinine =mg/dl

• AST or ALT = 2.5 ULN without liver metastasis; or = 5 ULN with liver metastasis.

• Residual toxicity event = CTC-AE grade 2, except peripheral neurotoxicities.

• Central nervous system (CNS) metastasis or spinal compression; except no symptoms and with no cortical hormonotherapy in 4 weeks.

• Clinical evidence of interstitial lung disease

• Any severe or uncontrolled systemic diseases judged by investigators.

• Any contraindication of Neurokinin-1 receptor inhibitors and desloratadine.

Discontinuation Criteria

• Invalid subject after randomization

• Major protocol violations judged by investigators.

• Poor compliance

• Intolerable adverse events

• Subject withdraw ICF

• Any pregnancy events

• No clinical benefits due to clinical adverse events, laboratory abnormalities or other medical conditions

• Other reasons of treatment discontinuation judged by investigators.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Lung Neoplasms
• Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
• Pruritus

Intervention

Drug:
• Aprepitant
aprepitant 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5; until pruritus recurrence or discontinuation of EGFR-TKI or safely issues (SAE etc.)
• Desloratadine
Desloratadine 5mg d1-d28; until pruritus recurrence or discontinuation of EGFR-TKI or safely issues (SAE etc.)
• Placebo of aprepitant
Placebo of aprepitant 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5; until pruritus recurrence or discontinuation of EGFR-TKI or safely issues (SAE etc.)
• Placebo of desloratadine
Placebo of desloratadine 5mg d1-d28; until pruritus recurrence or discontinuation of EGFR-TKI or safely issues (SAE etc.)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Cancer Center of Sun-Yat Sen University (CCSYSU)	GuangZhou	Guangdong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sun Yat-sen University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	effective rate of pruritus relieving	effective treatment of pruritus relieving defined as visual analogue scale (VAS) decrease = 50% after treatment compared to baseline score	day 28 at the treatment ends
Secondary	duration of pruritus relieving	the time from pruritus effective relief to VAS score increase = baseline level, the VAS inquiry will be taken once a week.	12 weeks at the follow-up end
Secondary	Change from baseline quality of life assessment at treatment ends	using SKINDEX-16 questionnaire to assess patients quality of life	baseline, 28 days at the treatment ends