A Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Cannabidiol (GWP42003-P; CBD) as Adjunctive Treatment for Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome in Children and Adults



Status:Completed
Conditions:Neurology, Epilepsy
Therapuetic Areas:Neurology, Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:2 - 55
Updated:7/29/2018
Start Date:April 28, 2015
End Date:March 18, 2016

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A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Cannabidiol (GWP42003-P; CBD) as Adjunctive Treatment for Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome in Children and Adults.

To evaluate the efficacy of GWP42003-P as adjunctive treatment in reducing the number of drop
seizures when compared with placebo, in participants with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS).

This study was a 1:1 randomized, double-blind, 14-week comparison of 20 milligram [mg] per
kilogram [kg] per day [mg/kg/day] of GWP42003-P versus placebo. The treatment period
consisted of a 2-week titration period followed by a 12-week maintenance period. The study
determined the efficacy, safety and tolerability of GWP42003-P compared with placebo. The
dose was recommended by the Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) after assessment of
safety and pharmacokinetic data from Part A of study GWEP1332. The first participants
enrolled into this study after the DSMC reviewed the safety data from Part A of study
GWEP1332. Following study completion, all participants were invited to continue to receive
GWP42003-P in an open label extension (OLE) study (under a separate protocol).

Key Inclusion Criteria:

- Participant must have been male or female aged between 2 and 55 years (inclusive).

- Participant must have had a documented history of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. This
included written documentation of having met electroencephalogram (EEG) diagnostic
criteria during the participant's history and evidence of at least 1 type of
generalized seizure, including drop seizures (atonic, tonic, tonic-clonic or
myoclonic) for at least 6 months.

- Participants had a history of slow (<3.0 Hertz) spike-and-wave pattern in an EEG prior
to the enrollment into the baseline period.

- Participants were refractory; that is having documented failures on more than one
antiepileptic drug (AED).

- Participant must have been taking 1 or more AEDs at a dose which has been stable for
at least 4 weeks prior to screening.

- All medications or interventions for epilepsy (including ketogenic diet and vagus
nerve stimulation [VNS]) must have been stable for 4 weeks prior to screening and
participant is willing to maintain a stable regimen throughout the study. The
ketogenic diet and VNS treatments are not accounted as an AED.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

- Etiology of participant's seizures was a progressive neurologic disease. Participants
with tuberous sclerosis were not excluded from study participation, unless there was a
progressive tumor.

- Participant had an anoxic episode requiring resuscitation within 6 months of
screening.

- Participant had clinically significant unstable medical conditions other than
epilepsy.

- Participant had clinically relevant symptoms or a clinically significant illness in
the 4 weeks prior to screening or randomization, other than epilepsy.

- Participant was currently using or has in the past used recreational or medicinal
cannabis, or synthetic cannabinoid based medications (including Sativex®) within the 3
months prior to study entry and was unwilling to abstain for the duration of the
study.

- Participant had any known or suspected hypersensitivity to cannabinoids or any of the
excipients of the Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP), such as sesame oil.

- Participant had been part of a clinical trial involving another IMP in the previous 6
months.

- Participant had significantly impaired hepatic function at screening or randomization
(Alanine aminotransferase [ALT] >5 x upper limit of normal [ULN] or total bilirubin
[TBL] >2 x ULN) OR the ALT or Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) >3 x ULN and (TBL >2 x
ULN or international normalized ratio >1.5). This criterion can only be confirmed once
the laboratory results are available; Participants randomized into the study who are
later found not to meet this criterion should be withdrawn from the study.

- Any history of suicidal behavior or any suicidal ideation of type 4 or 5 on the
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale in the last month or at screening.

- Participant was taking more than 4 concurrent AEDs.

- Participant was taking corticotropins in the 6 months prior to screening.

- Participant was taking long-term systemic steroids (excluding inhaled medication for
asthma treatment) or any other daily medication known to exacerbate epilepsy. An
exception was made of prophylactic medication, for example, idiopathic nephrotic
syndrome or asthma.

- Participant was taking felbamate, and they had been taking it for less than 1 year
prior to screening.
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