EP-100 Plus Paclitaxel Versus Paclitaxel Alone in Patients With Ovarian Cancer



Status:Completed
Conditions:Ovarian Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:7/16/2013
Start Date:February 2012
End Date:October 2013
Contact:Esperance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 443-800-2821 or send an email with site number to
Email:clinicaltrial@esperancepharma.com

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EP-100, a Novel LHRH Receptor-Targeted, Membrane-Disrupting Peptide, Plus Paclitaxel Versus Paclitaxel Alone for Refractory or Recurrent Ovarian Cancer: A Phase II, Randomized, Multicenter Trial


Primary Objectives: o Run-in Phase: Determine a dose of EP-100 at which the initial
benefit/risk of paclitaxel combined with EP-100 can be studied. o Randomized Phase: Compare
the anti-tumor effects of EP-100 combined with weekly paclitaxel versus paclitaxel alone in
patients with ovarian cancer. Secondary Objectives: o Randomized Phase: Quantify any
significant changes in the safety profile of weekly paclitaxel alone compared to the doublet
combination of paclitaxel with EP-100. o Determine an initial benefit/risk profile for this
new drug combination.


Total duration of the study for each participant is 9 to 10 months, consisting of a 1 month
screening period, a 6 to 7 months treatment period, and a 30 day follow-up. All patients
with stable disease or who have achieved partial or complete response and for whom dosing
has been safe and reasonably well-tolerated may continue additional treatment cycles on the
same regimen. Any patient whose imaging assessment shows disease progression after receiving
at least two cycles of single agent weekly paclitaxel on ARM 1 may then be offered treatment
with the combination of EP-100 plus paclitaxel in the same dose regimen as ARM 2.

Inclusion criteria:

- Adult patients with histologically confirmed epithelial ovarian carcinomas; these
will include primary peritoneal and fallopian tube carcinomas. Patient's tumor shown
to be positive for the LHRH-receptors by standardized immunocytochemistry performed
at the study's central laboratory.

- Reliable cancer treatment history documenting advanced disease in patients who have
progressed during or recurred after treatment with a paclitaxel and/or platinum
regimen for advanced disease.

- Evaluable disease based on criteria of the Gynecologic Intergroup Response Evaluation
Criteria in in Solid Tumors.

- Karnofsky performance status >/= 70%.

Exclusion criteria:

- Significant cardiac disease.

- Active, uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infections requiring systemic
therapy.

- Pregnant or nursing women.

- Treatment with radiation therapy or investigational therapy within 4 weeks prior to
Day 1. Had received chemotherapy prior to study entry equivalent to 3 to 5
half-lives of that chemotherapy agent or 4 weeks prior to study entry (whichever is
shorter) with resolution of any side effects from that previous therapy (6 weeks for
nitrosoureas or Mitomycin C.)

- Subjects with known central nervous system (CNS) metastases, either previously
treated or current.

- Disease-free and off therapy for any other cancer within 5 years, except for
adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or cervical
intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN).

- Had major surgery, other than diagnostic surgery, within 4 weeks prior to Day 1. o
Had minor surgery (superficial incisions unlikely to obscure bleeding or infections)
within 2 weeks prior to Day 1.

- Potentially life-threatening disease (hypercalcemia, spinal cord compression) whose
disease may progress acutely during therapy.

- Unwilling or unable to comply with procedures required in this protocol.

- Known infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, or hepatitis C.

- Susceptibility to histamine release.

- Chronic treatment with corticosteroids.

- Baseline QTc exceeding 450 msec (by Bazett's formula) and/or patients receiving class
1A or class III antiarrythmic agents.

- Serious nonmalignant disease.

- Subjects who are currently receiving any other investigational agent.

- Inadequate renal and liver functions and bone marrow reserve.

The above information is not intended to contain all considerations relevant to a
patient's potential participation in a clinical trial.
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