Ixabepilone With or Without Estramustine in Treating Patients With Progressive Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Phase I And Randomized Phase 2 Trial Of Epothilone B Analogue BMS 247550 (NSC # 710428) Administered Every 21 Days With Or Without Oral Estramustine Phosphate In Patients With Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00025194
• Other study ID #: CDR0000068935
• Secondary ID: MSKCC-01064MSKCC
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• First received: October 11, 2001
• Last updated: June 20, 2013
• Start date: July 2001
• Est. completion date: July 2006

Study information

• Verified date: November 2005
• Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ixabepilone and estramustine, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether BMS-247550 is more effective with or without estramustine in treating prostate cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase I/II trial is studying the best dose of ixabepilone when given together with estramustine and to see how well giving ixabepilone together with estramustine works compared to ixabepilone alone in treating patients with progressive prostate cancer.

Description:

OBJECTIVES:

• Determine the maximum tolerated dose of ixabepilone combined with estramustine in patients with progressive androgen-independent adenocarcinoma of the prostate. (Phase I)

• Compare the safety and efficacy of ixabepilone with or without estramustine in this patient population. (Phase II)

• Correlate the clinical outcomes with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction-based assay for prostate-specific antigen mRNA in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of ixabepilone (phase I) followed by a randomized, multicenter study (phase II).

• Phase I: Patients receive ixabepilone IV over 3 hours on day 2 and oral estramustine 3 times daily on days 1-5. Courses repeat every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of ixabepilone until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which at least 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.

• Phase II: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

• Arm I: Patients receive ixabepilone IV over 3 hours at the MTD on day 2 and estramustine as in phase I.

• Arm II: Patients receive ixabepilone IV over 3 hours at the MTD on day 1. Treatment in both arms repeats as in phase I.

Patients are followed every 12 weeks until disease progression.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 3-12 patients will be accrued for phase I of this study and a total of 44-92 patients (22-46 per treatment arm) will be accrued for phase II of this study within 12-18 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: July 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate

• Must have disease progression meeting 1 of the following criteria:

• Rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) on at least 3 consecutive measurements taken more than 1 week apart

• Measurable disease, defined as new or progressive soft tissue masses on CT scan or MRI

• New metastatic lesions by radionuclide bone scan

• The most recent PSA must be at least 4 ng/mL if no measurable disease is present

• Ineligible if sole manifestation of progressive disease is an increase in disease-related symptoms

• Serum testosterone no greater than 50 ng/mL

• One of the following therapies for maintenance of castrate status required:

• Must continue on gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (e.g., leuprolide or goserelin) to maintain castrate levels of serum testosterone

• Developed disease progression after discontinuation of the antiandrogen that was part of the first-line hormonal therapy

• Prior surgical orchiectomy

• Developed disease progression after discontinuation of megestrol

• No known brain metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

• 18 and over

Performance status:

• Karnofsky 70-100%

Life expectancy:

• Not specified

Hematopoietic:

• WBC at least 3,000/mm^3

• Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3

• Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

• No history of bleeding disorder that would preclude anticoagulation with warfarin

Hepatic:

• Bilirubin normal

• AST/ALT no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)

• PT/PTT normal (unless anticoagulated for other reasons [e.g., atrial fibrillation])

Renal:

• Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN

Cardiovascular:

• No significant cardiovascular disease

• No symptomatic congestive heart failure

• No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease

• No active unstable angina pectoris

• No cardiac arrhythmia

• No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months

• No history of hemorrhagic or thrombotic cerebrovascular accident or deep venous thrombosis within the past 6 months

Pulmonary:

• No pulmonary embolism within the past 6 months

Other:

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No history of allergic reactions to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to the epothilones

• No history of recent gastrointestinal bleeding that would preclude anticoagulation with warfarin

• No other concurrent active malignancy except nonmelanomatous skin cancer

• Disease not considered currently active if completely treated with less than a 30% risk for relapse

• No other concurrent uncontrolled illness

• No ongoing or active infection

• No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

• No concurrent routine filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF) except for neutropenic fever

• No concurrent immunotherapy

Chemotherapy:

• No prior chemotherapy

• No other concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

• See Disease Characteristics

Radiotherapy:

• No prior palliative radiotherapy to more than 25% of bone marrow

• No prior radioisotope therapy with strontium chloride Sr 89 or samarium Sm 153 lexidronam pentasodium

• No concurrent therapeutic radiotherapy

• Concurrent focal radiotherapy for palliation of bone disease-related symptoms allowed at the investigator's discretion

Surgery:

• See Disease Characteristics

• At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery

Other:

• No other concurrent anticancer investigational or commercial agents or therapies

• No concurrent herbal, alternative, or food supplements (e.g., PC-SPES, saw palmetto, or St. John's Wort)

• No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients

• No initiation of bisphosphonates immediately before or during study

• Concurrent bisphosphonates allowed if developed disease progression while on stable doses

• Concurrent daily multivitamin allowed

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Prostate Cancer
• Prostatic Neoplasms

Intervention

Drug:
• estramustine phosphate sodium

• ixabepilone

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center	Ann Arbor	Michigan
United States	Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center at Dana Farber Cancer Institute	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	New York	New York
United States	UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (3)

Galsky MD, Small EJ, Oh WK, Chen I, Smith DC, Colevas AD, Martone L, Curley T, Delacruz A, Scher HI, Kelly WK. Multi-institutional randomized phase II trial of the epothilone B analog ixabepilone (BMS-247550) with or without estramustine phosphate in pati — View Citation

Smaletz O, Galsky M, Scher HI, DeLaCruz A, Slovin SF, Morris MJ, Solit DB, Davar U, Schwartz L, Kelly WK. Pilot study of epothilone B analog (BMS-247550) and estramustine phosphate in patients with progressive metastatic prostate cancer following castrati — View Citation

Smaletz O, Kelly WK, Horse-Grant D, et al.: Epothilone B analogue (BMS-247550) with estramustine phosphate (EMP) in patients (pts) with progressive castrate-metastatic prostate cancer (PC). [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncolo