α-TEA in Advanced Cancer

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Metastatic Carcinoma, Metastatic Sarcoma, Metastatic Lymphoma

In brief

The goal of this study is to find the highest dose of α-TEA that can be given to patients safely, to identify potential side effects of α-TEA, and to measure the amount of α-TEA in patients' blood. Additional goals of this study are to monitor the effect on tumors, to check for specific immune cells circulating in the blood, and to see if there are certain features of tumors that make it possible to predict the response to α-TEA.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02192346

Run by

Providence Health & Services

People needed

17

Starts

2014-08-04

Expected to finish

2018-05-08

Last updated by the study team

2018-08-17

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients with measurable or evaluable metastatic carcinoma, sarcoma or lymphoma who have malignancy refractory or progressed after therapy and for whom no other standard (non-experimental) therapy exists or who have declined available standard therapy, with potential to induce cure, remission or enhanced survival. Either histologic or cytologic diagnosis is acceptable of the primary cancer, or clinical evidence of metastasis.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0, 1, or 2.
• Age 18 years or above.
• Laboratory values (performed within 28 days prior to enrollment) within protocol specified range.
• Confirmed radiographic and/or serum marker showing cancer progression after at least one systemic therapy for metastatic disease.
• Ability to give informed consent and comply with the protocol. Patients with a history of psychiatric illness must be judged able to understand the investigational nature of the study and the risks associated with the therapy.
• No active bleeding.
• No coagulopathy (INR <1.5, PT <16 seconds, PTT < 38 seconds) at baseline.
• Anticipated lifespan greater than 12 weeks.
• Ability to swallow capsules
• Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test and must avoid becoming pregnant while on α-TEA and for 4 weeks after the last dose of α-TEA. Men must avoid fathering a child while on α-TEA and for 4 weeks after the last dose of α-TEA.

You may not qualify if…

• Active serious infection that could affect treatment.
• Coagulopathy or need for anti-coagulation therapy.
• Malabsorbtion state such as ulcerative colitis, previous surgical resection of > 20% of intestine or stomach.
• History of or active atrial fibrilliationfibrillation or supraventricular tachycardia
• Cardiac ejection fraction less than the lower limit of normal on echocardiography
• Right atrial enlargement on echocardiography
• Active cardiac ischemia. Patients with a history of ischemia ameliorated with stent placement or coronary artery bypass grafting and who have no evidence of ischemia by exercise or physiological stress testing are eligible.
• History of or active congestive heart failure
• Patients with tumor that has invaded vagal nerve, carotid bodies, mediastinal structures, pericardium or myocardium.
• Abnormal thyroid function, or euthyroid, but are on medication for thyroid disorders
• Need for chronic high dose maintenance oral steroids. Stable treatment with prednisone ≤ 10 mg daily (or a biologically-equivalent dose of another steroid) is allowed. Patients who require brief courses of steroids to manage allergic reaction to intravenous contrast used in radiographic studies are eligible. Patients requiring steroids for management of CNS metastatic disease are not eligible.
• Surgery or severe trauma within 4 weeks of study entry (minimally invasive procedures acceptable).
• Active brain metastatic disease. Patients with brain metastases who have been treated with surgery, gamma-knife radiosurgery or radiation and no radiographic progression for at least 4 weeks and off steroids are eligible.
• Any medical or psychiatric condition that in the opinion of the PI would preclude compliance with study procedures.
• Vitamin E supplements
• QTc greater than 450 msec at baseline (calculated using Bazett's formula), sick-sinus syndrome or other active cardiac disease.

Where it is running

• Providence Oncology & Hematology Care Clinic- Southeast — Clackamas, Oregon, United States
• Providence Oncology & Hematoloty Care Clinic- Newberg — Newberg, Oregon, United States
• Providence Oncology & Hematology Care Clinic- Willamette Falls — Oregon City, Oregon, United States
• Providence Oncology & Hematology Care Clinic- Eastside — Portland, Oregon, United States
• Providence Oncology & Hematology Care Clinic- Westside — Portland, Oregon, United States

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