P:II Above-Label Octreotide-LAR With Insufficiently Controlled Carcinoid Syndrome

Stopped early · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

In brief

The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of high-dose octreotide on flushing, diarrhea, and quality of life in patients whose disease-related symptoms are inadequately controlled by the maximum approved dose of octreotide LAR.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01886287

Run by

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

People needed

2

Starts

2013-12-01

Expected to finish

2014-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-01-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Metastatic neuroendocrine tumors that are considered well or moderately differentiated (or low to intermediate grade). Patients with poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas or small cell carcinomas are excluded from the study.
• Elevated urine 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA)
• More than 2 bowel-movements per day OR more than 4 flushing episodes per week on average
• Patient currently on octreotide LAR 30mg every 3 or 4 weeks (for at least 3 cycles prior to screening)
• Age ≥ 18 years
• Minimum of four weeks since any major surgery, liver-directed therapy (embolization, etc.) or systemic cancer treatment other than octreotide LAR
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤2
• Life expectancy > 12 weeks
• Reliable contraception should be maintained throughout the study and for 3 months after study drug discontinuation.
• Signed informed consent to participate in the study must be obtained from patients after they have been fully informed of the nature and potential risks by the investigator (or his/her designee) with the aid of written information.

You may not qualify if…

• Known hypersensitivity to somatostatin analogues
• Patients with poorly differentiated neuroendocrine cancers
• Patients with liver cirrhosis
• Patients receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
• Patients with cachexia who, in the opinion of the investigator, may have difficulty tolerating intramuscular injection
• Patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis or biliary events within past five years (who have not undergone cholecystectomy)
• Patients with recent history (within 5 years) of pancreatitis
• Patients with uncontrolled diabetes (HgA1c >8.0 despite adequate therapy)
• Women of child-bearing potential, UNLESS they are using two birth control methods
• Women who are pregnant or lactating
• HIV positive patients
• History of sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, advanced heart block, idiopathic syncope thought to be related to ventricular arrhythmia, or congenital long QT syndrome
• Risk factors for Torsades de Pointes such as cardiac failure, clinically significant/symptomatic bradycardia
• Patients who have any severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions or other conditions that could affect their participation in the study
• History of noncompliance to medical regimens or unwillingness to comply with the protocol
• Patients who were unable to tolerate or did not benefit from above-label dose octreotide (>30mg) in the past
• Concomitant use of other cancer treatments or carcinoid syndrome treatments (whether standard or experimental). Patients should discontinue any concomitant cancer medications more than two weeks prior to screening.

Where it is running

• H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute — Tampa, Florida, United States

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