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A Randomized Phase II Trial of IL-2/IFN-α Plus Bevacizumab Versus IL-2/IFN-α in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) - Danish Renal Cancer Group (DARENCA) Study-1


Phase 2
18 Years
N/A
Open (Enrolling)
Both
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

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A Randomized Phase II Trial of IL-2/IFN-α Plus Bevacizumab Versus IL-2/IFN-α in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) - Danish Renal Cancer Group (DARENCA) Study-1


Bevacizumab as monotherapy has effect in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Bevacizumab
in combination with interferon-alfa (IFN-α) has significant efficacy in mRCC and has been
approved by EMA and FDA.

The present study will assess whether the combination of Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IFN-α with
bevacizumab may add efficacy in patients with mRCC with a tolerable safety profile.


Inclusion Criteria:



1. Signed written informed consent

2. Patient must be willing and able to comply with the protocol.

3. Age ≥ 18 years.

4. Histologic og cytologic biopsy proven locally advanced or metastatic renal cell
carcinoma, considered non-candidates for curative surgery. Nephrectomy is not
mandatory.

5. Patient with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with a clear-cell histologic component
confirmed by local pathology review.

6. Females with a negative serum pregnancy test unless childbearing potential can be
otherwise excluded

7. Fertile women of childbearing potential (<2 years after last menstruation) and men
must use effective means of contraception

8. Memorial-Sloan-Kettering-Cancer-Centre favourable- and intermediate prognostic group.

9. Measurable or non-measurable disease (as per RECIST1.1 criteria)

10. Karnofsky Performance status of 70% or higher.

11. Life expectancy greater than 4 months.

12. The required laboratory values at baseline are as follows:

Haematology:

WCC ≥ 3.0 x 109/L, Platelet count ≥ 100 x 109/L, Haemoglobin ≥ 6.2 mmol/l, (INR) ≤ 1.5,
APTT ≤ 1.5 x ULN

Biochemistry:

Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN), AST, ALT ≤ 2.5 x ULN in patients
without liver metastases, ≤ 5 x ULN in patients with liver metastases, Serum Creatinine ≤
150 micromol/L

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Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prior systemic treatment for metastatic RCC disease

2. Major surgical procedure, open surgical biopsy, or significant traumatic injury
within 28 days prior to randomization.

3. Serious non-healing wound, ulcer or bone fracture.

4. Evidence of current central nervous system (CNS) metastases or spinal cord
compression. Patient must undergo an MRI or CT scan of the brain (with contrast, if
possible) within 28 days prior to randomization.

5. Seizure(s) not controlled with standard medical therapy.

6. Dipstick urine test of protein ≥ 2+.

7. Other malignancies within 5 years prior to randomization (other than curatively
treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin and/or in situ carcinoma of the cervix).

8. Evidence of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy.

9. Ongoing or recent (within 10 days prior to study treatment start) need for full
therapeutic dose of oral anticoagulants or chronic daily treatment with aspirin. Low
molecular weight heparin are allowed

10. Uncontrolled hypertension (≥ 160 mm Hg systolic and/or ≥ 100 mm Hg diastolic) while
receiving chronic medication.

11. Clinically significant (i.e. active) cardiovascular disease, for example
cerebrovascular accidents (≤ 6 months before randomisation), myocardial infarction (≤
6 months before randomisation), unstable angina, New York Heart Association (NYHA)
grade II or greater congestive heart failure, or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring
medication.

12. Recent (within the 30 days prior to randomization) treatment with another
investigational drug or participation in another investigational study.

13. Chronic treatment with corticosteroids (dose of ≥ 10 mg/day methylprednisolone
equivalent), excluding inhaled steroids.

14. History or presence of other disease, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination
finding, or clinical laboratory finding giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or
condition that contraindicates use of an investigational drug or patient at high risk
from treatment complications.

15. Known hypersensitivity to interleukin-2, Interferon, alfa or bevacizumab.

Serial blood test, serial tumor biopsies and serial dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging will
be obtained as part of a translational research program integrated in the clinical trial.

Part(s) of the translational research program may be omitted in the individual patient due
to practical, technical or safety reasons, without having consequences for participating
in the additional translational research investigations or the clinical part of the study.

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Type of Study:

Interventional

Study Design:

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Outcome Measure:

Progression free survival, PFS

Outcome Time Frame:

This is defined as the time between date of randomisation and the first date of documented disease progression or date of death due to any cause.

Safety Issue:

No

Principal Investigator

Frede Donskov, MD, DMSc

Investigator Role:

Principal Investigator

Investigator Affiliation:

Aarhus University Hospital

Authority:

Denmark: Danish Medicines Agency

Study ID:

DARENCA-1

NCT ID:

NCT01274273

Start Date:

October 2009

Completion Date:

December 2014

Related Keywords:

  • Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
  • Bevacizumab
  • interleukin-2
  • interferon-alpha
  • Carcinoma
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell

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